Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2084.3

JULIEN FAU (fl. 1845-1846) Anatomie des formes extérieures du corps humain à l’usage des peintres et des sculpteurs. Méquignon-Marvis 1845-1846 First edition. xvi, 214, 40 p. + 1 atlas (24 leaves of plates : col. Ill.) 36 cm.

Julien Fau, doctor of medicine in Paris, edited two different anatomic works for artists: Anatomie des formes exterieures du corps humain, a l'usage des peintres et des sculpteurs. Avec un Atlas de 24 planches dessinées d'apres nature et lithographiees par M. Leveille, eleve de M. Jacob. Paris: Mequignon- Marvis fils, 1845 (16 and 214 pp.), 8° and fol. (24 lithographic plates), black and white and also colored. The plates are very beautifully finished and comprise one plate of skulls of different nationalities; several different views of the nude bodies of a man, a woman, and a child, all drawn from nature, some of them supplemented by skeletons placed alongside of the bodies, with the body outlines; representations of the bones, and the muscles, the latter with the bones in some cases drawn in. Particular attention has been given to the various positions and flexions of the extremities. The last plate represents the myology of the Laocoon, without the sons, after Charles Clement Bervic's well-known print.

Cited references: Choulant-Frank p.349-350

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