Écorché (Figure Study of Musculature) Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906). Écorché (Figure Study of Musculature), ca. 1848. Red, brown, white, and black crayon with graphite underdrawing on blue-green, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper, Sheet: 21 3/4 x 14 15/16 in. ( x cm). In this suite of three drawings, Daniel Huntington rendered the idealized male figure—based on an ancient Greek sculpture of a dancing faun that he most likely knew from a plaster cast—in progressively complete anatomical states. Using different colored media and a combination of crisp outlines and s
Écorché (Figure Study of Musculature) Daniel Huntington (American, 1816-1906). Écorché (Figure Study of Musculature), ca. 1848. Red, brown, white, and black crayon with graphite underdrawing on blue-green, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper, Sheet: 21 3/4 x 14 15/16 in. ( x cm). In this suite of three drawings, Daniel Huntington rendered the idealized male figure—based on an ancient Greek sculpture of a dancing faun that he most likely knew from a plaster cast—in progressively complete anatomical states. Using different colored media and a combination of crisp outlines and soft hatchings, the artist rendered the human form with great precision and sensitivity to the distinct properties of skin, muscle, and bone. As a group, these sheets provide a virtuoso demonstration of the academic principle that an understanding of anatomy is fundamental to figural representation. American Art ca. 1848
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