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Sculpter- Jean-Pancrace Chastel
French,1726-1793
Medium- Plaster
Écorché Bust
After original of ca. 1770
Écorché models- figures displaying the
muscles below the skin, either cast from anato
mized bodies or sculpted after them-were
produced both in life-size and in smaller, more
portable versions. This animated bust, with
head and eyes turned to look off to the side and
mouth open as if in surprise or about to speak,
was drawn by the English artist Charles Landseer
(1709-1879) when a student
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Scanned at the Getty in Los Angeles Califronia as part of their Death Exhibits.
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