Human skin in composition, 1859
Partly articulated.
The movable cranium and abdomen reveal organs.
French inscriptions, cut out of newspaper, defining the different parts of the body.
On a wrought iron base.
Signed and dated on the upper left thigh.
Accidents and small losses.
Louis Auzoux, like all his fellow medical students, had great difficulty in learning anatomy: corpses were difficult to find and decomposed rapidly.
He then envisaged an elegant solution inspired by the puppets of the Parisian street shows: to elaborate papier-mâché body parts (see the book, Corps de papier:
L'anatomie en papier mâché du docteur Auzoux).
H.139 cm
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