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041 0 # $a fre
044 # # $a fr
100 1 # $a Fau, Julien
245 1 0 $a Anatomie Des Formes Extérieures Du Corps Humain A L'Usage Des Peintres Et Des Sculpteurs Par Le Docteur J. Fau. Atlas Composé de 24 Planches Dessinées D'Après Nature, et lithographiées par M. Léveillé, élève de M. Jacob.
260 # # $a Paris. $b Méquignon-Marvis Fils, Libraire-Éditeur, 3, Rue De L'École-De-Médecine. $c 1845.
300 # # $a [4] p., 24 pl.; $c 342 mm.
508 # # $a The twenty-four lithographs are signed as 'D'après nature par Léveillé'. Most are also signed 'Imp. Lemercier', but pl. 5, 6 are signed 'Imp. d'Artus', and pl. 13, 14 are signed 'Imp. Lemercier, Benard et Co.'

Each carries the imprint, 'Méquignon-Marvis fils éditeur'.

The title-page verso names the text printer as Plon Frères.
510 0 # $a A.S. Leoussi, 'Pheidias and "l'esprit moderne": the study of human anatomy in nineteenth-century English and French art education', in European review of history, 7:2 (2 August 2000), p. 167-188; The ingenious machine of nature: four centuries of art and anatomy, by M. Cazort et al. [exhibition catalogue] (Ottawa, 1996), p.64-66.
520 2 # $a This publication accompanies the text of J. Fau's Anatomie Des Formes Extérieures Du Corps Humain, published in the same year (and catalogued separately). The work was published to supplement P.N. Gerdy's similarly titled, Anatomie des formes extérieurs du corps humain, appliqué à la peinture, à la sculpture et à la chirurgie (Brussels, 1829).

The plates each show a nude, with the outline of its skeleton visible, alongside an écorché in a similar pose. Plate 17 shows the movement of the scapula, or shoulder bone.

An English version appeared in 1849: The anatomy of the external forms of man ... edited with additions by Robert Knox. With an atlas ...'.
561 # # $a Ordered to be purchased 14 August 1848 (RA Council Minutes, X, 225).
563 # # $a 19th-century half calf, marbled-papered boards; black morocco spine-label lettered 'Planches De L'Anatom Du Docteur J. Fau'.
653 # # $a Anatomy
653 # # $a Sculpture
655 # 4 $a Manuals, French - France - 19th century
655 # 4 $a Pictorial works - France - 19th century
700 1 # $a Léveillé, Jean Baptiste $e lithographer
700 1 # $a Méquignon-Marvis $e bookseller $e publisher