J. L. Lund - Drawing from a cast

J. L. Lund - drawing from a cast

Johan Ludwig Gebhard Lund was born in 1777 and lived 90 years He trained in Copenhagen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. is main works were historical paintings. Wikipedia Article.

J.L.Lund and C.W. Eckersberg shared the job as professors at the Danish Academy after Abildgaard died.

The drawing is for sale on Ebay.

Ida Brun

Ida Brun

Pyrrhus and Andromache before Hector’s Tomb

C.W. Eckersberg: His mind and times (Format)

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853

C.W. Eckersberg: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, 3. 9.-9. 10. 1983 (Danish Edition)

TEGNINGER OF C. W. ECKERSBERG

Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome - Cours de dessin

Figure drawing from the Cours de Dessin

Jean-Léon Gérôme - Le Marché aux Esclaves

Charles Bargue wrote a well known and well used book on drawing, Cours de dessin, which was based on the study of classical casts, and progressed from casts, to examples of master drawings to drawing from the living model. The drawings were prepared in collaboration with Jean-Léon Gérôme. The course contained 197 lithographs and was published between1866 and 1871. A show of the complete set of engravings was mounted at the Dahesh Museum of Art. Here is a review by Art Times.

Angel Blowing a Trumpet (after Michelangelo's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel)

The Arm of Moses by Michelangelo

Horse head from the West Pediment of the Parthenon





Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course


Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course

Charles Bargue et Jean-Leon Gerome. Cours de dessin (French Edition)




Blog post of the Koop family has some examples from the book.













Wetcanvas has some as well.

















The drawings from casts are great but the figure drawings from life are particularly beautifully observed and elegant. If you like them you might like the work of a less well known artist who studied just a little later than when this work was made, Grace Young, I made a book (How to Draw the Human Figure -The Figure Drawings of Grace A. Young - you can iew Sample pages at Google Books) out of a journal of hers I found which shows her work and describes some of the art school methods of the time whch are also exemplified by the great book about Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome.

A blog called Gurney Journey had a post about the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto which bases its curriculum on the Bargue drawing course.


Jean-Léon Gérôme - The Slave Auction

Another post on French Academic Drawings.









Jean-Leon Gerome. His Life, His Work (PocheCouleur N° 21)


Jean-Leon Gerome. Monographie revisee et catalogue raisonne mis a jour (Les Orientalistes, Vol. 4) (French Edition)


Gerome (French Edition)


THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JEAN LÉON GÉRÔME

 

How to Draw - Drawing from Casts

Johann Daniel Preissler's book on human proportions was based on his study of antique statuary.

Drawing from casts of the antique remained an essential part of any art education through the early 20th century. (My book How to Draw the Human Figure: The Drawings of Grace Young
describes the switch from drawing from casts to drawing the figure in one Philadelphia art school)

The images here are from a book of photographs of drawing done by students at the National Academy of Design in New York City (nationalacademy.org) in 1871-1872. You can see the care the students put into this work which was an important part of their education.

Another example of drawing from the cast, assumed to be a 19th century French example.

An example of a drawing of the Aphrodite of Milo, better know as Venus de Milo, thought to be the work of Alexandros of Antioch.

Brussels School, 19th Century.





Cast Drawing Using the Sight-Size Approach at Amazon.com.

Lessons on Shading

Charles Bargue wrote a well known and well used book on drawing which was based on the study of classical casts, and progressed from casts, to examples of master drawings to drawing from the living model. A show of the complete set of engravings was mounted at the Dahesh Museum of Art.





Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course

Charles Bargue et Jean-Leon Gerome. Cours de dessin (French Edition)




Some other examples:

 

Model Drawing and Shading From Casts: A Complete Guide to the Elementary and Advanced Examinations in These Subjects [1896]

Model drawing and shading from casts; a complete guide to the elementary and advanced examinations in these subjects;

Another example signed J. L. Lund, classic Danish academic drawing. Johan Ludwig Gebhard Lund was a professor at the Danish Academy.

A plaster cast in the style of Polykleitos from the Wilcox Classical Museum of the University of Kansas.

Elmil Jean Kosa, Jr. Academic Study, 1927