Patrick Bade
The Louvre, Part 4: French Painting: The “Grandes Machines” from Jacques-Louis David to Delacroix
Summary
This five-part lecture explores the Louvre, the world’s greatest museum. In these sessions, Patrick Bade focuses on its unparalleled collection of paintings along with some of its other treasures.
Patrick Bade
Patrick Bade is a historian, writer, and broadcaster. He studied at UCL and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He was a senior lecturer at Christie’s Education for many years and has worked for the Art Fund, Royal Opera House, National Gallery, and V&A. He has published on 19th- and early 20th-century paintings and historical vocal recordings. His latest book is Music Wars: 1937–1945.
He models though he would’ve drawn… Professional models will have come to his studio, would’ve been a studio big enough to accommodate the paintings and he would’ve drawn them nude to understand the body underneath the clothing before he put the clothing on them.
Yes, but not to the same degree that they had been by Rubens, for instance, or certain old master paintings. Now in the 19th century, it was generally considered that an artist should be responsible for the whole thing. But I’m sure that they did use assistants as well.