FRENCH EDUCATION OF THE 19th CENTURY Head... - Lot 84 - Osenat

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FRENCH EDUCATION OF THE 19th CENTURY Head... - Lot 84 - Osenat
FRENCH EDUCATION OF THE 19th CENTURY Head of an old man Wax and traces of ink on the pupils Probably old restoration on the left wing of the nose H. 34 cm on a wooden base (H. total: 45 cm) Count Caylus, initiator of the competition of the head of expression of the Academy of painting and sculpture, wrote in 1757 "art must imitate nature" and is then in the current of artistic naturalism proper to the Enlightenment. The human being and his expressions became a subject of study in their own right, in the vein of physiognomy, studying character through the physical. Our wax, dated from the following century, continues this attention to moods and the representation of emotions.
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