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A Drawing School (Ecole de Dessein)

Maker

After
(artist)
1715-1790

(etcher)
born 1747

Title

A Drawing School (Ecole de Dessein)

Date of Production

1770

Medium

printed in black
etching and engraving

Dimensions

Height: 33.4 cm
Width: 21.6 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6981.1

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords











Related Works

Drawing (Dessein) - The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert (Encyclopédie)

Label Text

This illustration accompanied an article on drawing in the influential and widely circulated encyclopaedia edited by Denis Diderot. The upper scene, engraved after a design by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger, is a detailed view of a figure drawing class. Students are shown copying drawings and plaster casts and working directly from a life model. The lower diagram presents the recommended layout of a life class, which became standard in most art schools in the capitals of Europe from the mid-eighteenth-century.

Notes

Plate I from 'Dessein', part of Denis Diderot's and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's 'Encyclopédie'.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Print Room Display - Learning to Draw the Figure 1500 to 1800, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 24/06/2016-15/12/2016

Purpose and Process: British and French Printmaking 1600 - 1900, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/2014-20/06/2014

Literature

Light and Shade in French Neo-Classicism
Fig. p. reproduced p. 5

Inscriptions

Inscription: Fig. 2. / Fig. 1. //

Inscription: C. N. Cochin Filius Del. //

Inscription: C. N. COCHIN / Dessein, Paris, 1770. //

Inscription: Ecole de Dessein. //

Inscription: Pl. I. //

Inscription: B. L. Prevost Sculp. //

Inscription: BURLINGTON - DEC 1975 - ARTICLE p. 768. //

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