Today we would like to present to you a remarkable and exceptionally unique item. It is a painting mannequin from the mid-1800s. Made from beech wood essence with traces of preparation for varnishing. Life-sized, an antique artist's mannequin depicting feminine attributes such as teenage breasts and earrings.
Designed for atelier use as a model for anatomical studies, this ancient Italian-origin mannequin is realistically carved, fully jointed and articulated, with hands rendered in particularly precise detail, and all fingers are jointed and finished with even nail details. Well-preserved, with minor additions to the toes of the left foot and the little finger of the left hand, it appears to be slightly stiff only around the pelvis area.
Verb manekiner (from which the Italian term manichino is derived) appears for the first time in 18th-century France and is used to describe the skillful draping of fabric on a mannequin with a natural effect (J. MUNRO, Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, October 14, 2014 – January 25, 2015, exhibition catalog, p. 28).
"A jointed human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in European artistic practice since the 16th century. Tireless limbs and silence allowed artists to study anatomical proportions, pose according to their own taste, and refine the depiction of drapery and clothing. However, during the 19th century, the mannequin (or secular figure in English) gradually emerged from the atelier to become an independent subject, initially humorously, then in a more unsettling way, playing on the disturbing psychological presence of realistic yet unreal, true yet dead figures.
Period: 1800
Height: 167 cm
Width: 40 cm
Depth: 19 cm
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