The purpose of this blog was to force me to do a drawing a day. However, it is other artist’s drawings I seem to display.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Study for the Modeling Stand of the Ugolino Group, ca. 1860 Jean–Baptiste Carpeaux (French, 1827–1875) Pen and brown ink; 6 3/4 x 4 7/8 in. (17.1 x 12.4 cm)
Carpeaux drew this in preparation for a modeling stand to be
used in the creation of his fifth-year project at the French Academy in
Rome, Ugolino and His Sons (1861). It includes a finalized design
of the pyramidal sculpture. The wooden modeling stand was constructed
to hold the clay version of the group from which a plaster cast was
made. The stand's top was designed with an embedded rotating circle,
allowing the sculptor to turn the piece and view and work on the group
from various angles.
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