Monday, January 15, 2018

Nineteenth-century Figure Studies (Académies)

Chrétien Dubois
Académie
1804
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Chrétien Dubois
Académie
ca. 1805
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The idealized academic nude of the 17th and 18th centuries, subtly smoothed and balanced, continues as a standard art-school exercise into the 19th century, but gradually coarsens and thickens.  European academies, in other words, remain fierce in their traditional commitment to life-drawing, but the former conviction and the former ambition gradually seep out of it. 

Jacob Willemz de Vos
Académie
1809
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Willem Pieneman
Académie
ca. 1810
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Willem Pieneman
Académie
ca. 1810
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Cornelis Kruseman
Académie
1817
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Dirk Jurriaan Sluyter
Académie
1830
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Johannes Philippus Lange
Académie
1836
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Frans Molenaar
Académie
1843
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

William Mulready
Académie
1846, reworked 1857
drawing
Tate, London

August Allebé
Académie
ca. 1854
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Pieter van Loon
Académie
before 1873
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Pieter de Josselin de Jong
Académie
1879
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Fernand Cormon
Académie
ca. 1880
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam