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

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

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Enseignement du dessin par les solides applicable dans les écoles primaries, professionelles et supérieures
ArtistFrench, born 1835, active 1860s–1900
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
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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