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Gérard Audran

Les Proportions du Corps Humain mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité (The Proportions of the Human Body Measured on the Most Beautiful Figures from Antiquity)

Description

Maker

Gérard Audran (French, 1640-1703)

Title

Les Proportions du Corps Humain mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité (The Proportions of the Human Body Measured on the Most Beautiful Figures from Antiquity)

Year

1683

Medium

  • Engravings on paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Engravings on paper

Materials

ink

Supports

  • paper,
  • leather

Dimensions

41.6 x 29.5 x 1.9 cm (16 3/8 x 11 5/8 x 3/4 inches) thickness

Identification

Edition

Frist edition

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2007.63

Type

  • Books

Projects & Publications

Publications

Pub_ID 1932 Pat Steir Drawing Out of Line v_01.jpg
  • Books

Pat Steir: Drawing Out of Line

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses
The Artist's Model
Nov 12, 2010 – Jun 06, 2011

Label copy

Gérard Audran’s book The Proportions of the Human Body reveals the ongoing reverence for classical sculpture, which competed with live models for the attention of art students. While working with a live model allowed an endless variety of poses, famous statues like the Apollo Belvedere, the Laocoön, and the Medici Venus (seen here) offered examples of bodily perfection deemed worthy of admiration by centuries of artists and aesthetes. Audran traveled to Italy and visited the Vatican

and Capitoline Museums in Rome, creating this book to make those collections more accessible to other artists and students. In each case, he provided engraved views of the work from several angles, allowing readers to “turn” the model and study its measurements from all sides.

Pat Steir
Drawing Out of Line
Feb 19, 2010 – Jul 03, 2010

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This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Gérard Audran (French, 1640-1703)
Les Proportions du Corps Humain mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité (The Proportions of the Human Body Measured on the Most Beautiful Figures from Antiquity), 1683
Engravings on paper
41.6 x 29.5 x 1.9 cm (16 3/8 x 11 5/8 x 3/4 inches) thickness
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2007.63

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