Saturday, September 3, 2022

Unassigned Italian Figure Drawings at the Louvre - VIII

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous Italian Artist
Académie
ca. 1650-1700
drawing
Musée du Louvre

from School Figures

So practice would make us perfect
in the repetition of school figures,
obedience traced into the crystalline structure
unadorned and essential as numbers –
the reclining nude,
the 20th-century novel,
the irreducible core . . . 

– Cathy Song (1988)