Arthur Antoine Bullot
Enseignement du dessin par les solides applicable dans les écoles primaries, professionelles et supérieures

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Artist Arthur Antoine BullotFrench, born 1835, active 1860s–1900

Publisher Librairie Charles Delagrave

CultureFrench

Titles

Enseignement du dessin par les solides applicable dans les écoles primaries, professionelles et supérieures

Date1882

MediumBook of 33 albumen silver prints from glass negatives

DimensionsImage (each): 8 1/2 × 9 1/2 in. (21.6 × 24.1 cm)
Overall (closed): 15 1/2 × 12 5/8 × 1 3/16 in. (39.4 × 32.1 × 3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors

Object number2017.342

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS

DescriptionEssentially
an illustrated trade catalogue for plaster casts of geometric solids,
architectural ornament, and sculptural reliefs used to teach drawing, this rare
volume lies at the intersection of photography, commerce, science, and art.
More than a mere sales tool, however, the photographs were offered as a type of
manual, evidence that photography was gradually working its way into art schools
in the later 19th century and would soon replace plaster casts like those
offered here, which had long been a foundation of artistic training.
Provenance[Antiquarian Market, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris]; [purchased by Charles Wood Bookseller, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2016]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Stamped in purple, pasted down end paper, top left: COURS NORMAUX DE DESSIN // VILLE // DE // PARIS [circular stamp]

Stamped in purple, front free end paper, bottom center: 37 // COURS NORMAUX DE DESSIN // VILLE // DE // PARIS [A and R are faint] [circular stamp]

Stamped in purple, recto pl. 1, bottom center below image: COURS NORMAUX DE DESSIN [circular stamp]

[Numerous printed inscriptions on each page]

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