Anatomical Man (New) – Item #626 Sale Reliable

28 Inches High x 9 Inches Wide x 11.75 Inches Deep

PLEASE NOTE: This piece is made in resin.

Also known as L’Ecorche Combattant, this piece was an anatomical study by the Neoclassical French sculptor Jacques-Eugene Caudron (1818-1865). Caudron studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Pierre-Jean David d’Angers. A French doctor, Antoine-Louis-Julien Fau, asked Caudron to sculpt the anatomical figure for his book on human anatomy for artists’ reference, first published in 1845.

Artist: Jacques-Eugene Caudron

Time Period: Modern- Neoclassical, 1845

1911 Catalog ID # – 21004

Sources:

Duval, Mathias and Édouard Cuyer. Histoire de l’anatomie plastique. L.H. May, 1898. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=dDQCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.

Schwartz, Emmanuel. The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris. With contributions by George Steiner and Philippe Sénéchal. Translated by Christopher Miller. École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts (France), Yale University, Dahesh Museum of Art, and Princeton University Art Museum, 2005. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=K7XMymPdFEUC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false.