Sunday, November 3, 2013

Vladimir Popov (Владимир Попов)

Vladimir Popov teaching a class.

Владимир Попов Юная художница 1997 г.
(Vladimir Popov Young artist 1997)

Vladimir Popov Unfinished Portrait 2000



More here.

Georges Leonnec

Japonaiserie Parisienne, La Mode des Cheveaux aux Enfants du Nippon

La Nymphe Innocente

Illustrations by Georges Leonnec for La Vie Parisienne

Another image is on the post The arrival of Fall - Illustrations from La Vie Parisienne

Some others at Lumen in Caelo

 
Illustrations of artist's models by Georges Leonnec from Parashutov 

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Millicent L. Woodforde








The drawings are for sale on ebay. Here is what the seller has to say about Millicent L. Woodforde:
Millicent Lisle Woodforde 1880-1962. The illustrator and artist Millicent Woodforde is best known for her portrait of the composer Gustav Holst at work in his composing room at St. Paul's Girls' School (1910), which hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. She has other works in the Orleans House Gallery including a painting of the staircase at 10 Barnes Terrace, London, which was the home of Holst from 1910 to 1913. Presumably Woodforde and Holst were friends. Woodforde studied at the Académies Colarossi and Grande Chaumiere in Paris in 1904 and 1905. Almost all the drawings in our collection date from this period. The Académie Colarossi is an art school founded by the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi. First located on the Île de la Cité, it moved in the 1870s to 10 rue de la Grande-Chaumière in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, France. The Académie was established in the 19th century as an alternative to the government-sanctioned École des Beaux Arts that had, in the eyes of many promising young artists at the time, become far too conservative. Along with its equivalent Académie Julian, and unlike the official École, the Colarossi school accepted female students and allowed them to draw from the nude male model.

Girard Audran's Proportions of the Human Body



You could buy this rebound folio on human proportion for sale on Ebay for a marked down $1750 -
Les Proportions du Corps Humain Mesurees sur les plus Belles Figures de l'Antiquite By Chez Girard Audran, Gravueur du Roy Bound with Proportions of the Human Body Meausured from the most Beautiful Antique Statues: by Mons. Audran Engraver to the King of France Done from the Originals Engraved in Paris in Twenty Seven large Folio Plates.

Or you could buy a reprint on Amazon:

Gerard Audran's The Proportions of the Human Body

Other posts:Les Proportions du Corps Humain, Les Proportions du Corps Humain, Mesurees sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquite

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Jombert/Cochin Proportions of Apollo

 L'Apollon du Vatican 

Apollon de la ville Ludovise

The drawings shown here are for sale on Ebay.

Other works from the drawing book by Jombert  and Cochin are at these links:

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Warren B. Davis - Figurative Artist

Drawing of a female by Warren B. Davis, 1865-1928.  He studied at the Art Student's League and published in Vanity Fair and Life magazines. Wikipedia. The drawing above is for sale on Ebay.

Artprice listing for a nude by Warren B. Davis.

More images at Figureworks.
Nine Nudes by Warren B. Davis at One Objectivists Art Object of the Day

Another image at Liveauctioneers.


Sunday, September 22, 2013

A. Calavas - Studies for the Use of Artists


A. Calavas published “Studies for the Use of Artists” (or "Album d'Etudes et Poses`")around 1880.  Calavas was the editor, not the photographer. The photograph shown above is for sale on Ebay.
More photos by A. Calavas at Past to Present.
Another image of a male model at Artnet.
3 more at Galleria de Desnudos






Art Models 8: Practical Poses for the Working Artist (Art Models series)

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Sunday, September 8, 2013

External Anatomy


Lithograph from The Anatomy of the External Forms of Man, Intended for the Use of Artists, Painters and Sculptors by Doctor J. Fau, Lithographed by M. Leveille'.


Sunday, September 1, 2013

Joseph Emmanuël Gauguin - Apollino

 


An academic drawing of Apollo by Joseph Emmanuël Gauguin. The drawing is likely based on the Apollino cour Carree in the Louvre.

Here's a modern reproduction Hans Effenberger.

The French copies may be based on Giorgio Sommer's sculpture of Apollo in Florence, the Apollino or Medici Apollo (left).

A bronze copy from the 18th century in the Walters Art Museum (right).

The drawing shown here is for sale on Ebay.


There are similar sculptures such as the Lycian Apollo in the Louvre.
Above is an engraving of the sculpture from The George Glazer Gallery, and another view of the sculpture in the Louvre.

The type of Apollo Statue is based on a first century BCE of a sculpted figure with the hand resting on the head. Wikipedia entry about the Lycean Apollo

Another version attributed to Francesco Righetti

The Apollino was one of the sculptures Dr. Schadow used to develop his study of he proportions of ideal heads on Plate 19 in The Art Student's Guide to the Bones and Muscles of the Human Bodyand Lessons on Foreshortening

The Louvre Nude Sculptures (English and French Edition)

The Louvre Sculpture

La Sculpture française (French Edition)