Study of a Soldier

Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry French

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In this study for a Roman soldier, the artist focuses attention on the subtle modeling of the musculature of the arm while also exploring the chromatic effects of the ocher and blue pastels with red chalk. Biennourry possibly used the grid to reposition his model and produce studies of the same scale (see 1991.111) as he worked to determine the final costume and posture for this figure who features in his mural decorations in the Church of Saint-Séverin.

Study of a Soldier, Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry (French, Bar-sur-Aube 1823–1893 Paris), Conté crayon, red chalk, and pastel, heightened with white, on pale buff paper; squared in conté crayon

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