Life-size painter’s mannequin. Articulated frame in wood and metal, padding in vegetable fiber, covered in leather.
Polychrome carved wooden head.
From the end of the 18th century, there is evidence of a growing demand for mannequins capable of reproducing the human body as faithfully as possible, as well as the unprecedented efforts of manufacturers to provide the highest quality products. Paris was the modeling capital of Europe. Endowed with mechanical elements, sometimes covered with fabric, the mannequins represent a physical resemblance to human morphology and physiognomy and adopt with an almost anatomical fidelity all kinds of attitudes. For most of its history, the mannequin was made either to order (most often by anonymous artists) or by the artist himself.
Height: 164 cm
Late 18th century
France
