Charles Bargue drawing course : with the collaboration of Jean-Léon Gérôme / Gerald M. Ackerman ; with the collaboration of Graydon Parrish.

Accompanies an exhibition with the same name Nov. 25, 2003 - Feb. 8, 2004 at the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York.

Includes bibliographical references.

-- The history of the Drawing course -- Public controversy over teaching materials -- Goupil proposes of solution -- The organization of the Drawing course -- Drawing after casts (Modèles d'après la bosse). Introduction -- Practical matters: using the plates as models to copy -- The schemata or plans -- Materials -- Drawing terms -- Suggestions for coping the plates -- Values and modeling -- Procedure for modeling -- Finishing the drawing -- Copying master drawings (Modèles d'après les maîtres). Introduction -- Realism, idealism, and academic drawing -- Practical matters -- On choosing a master drawing to copy: the benefits of copying -- Getting down to copying -- A note about the drawings by Hans Holbein the younger -- Preparation for drawing académies (Exercices au fusain pour préparer à l'étude de l'académie d'après nature). Introduction -- Ancient sculpture as the model of true beauty: the prevalence of male models -- Practical matters: copying the drawings -- Some notes on Bargue's style -- A repertoire of traditional poses -- Charles Bargue, the artist. Introduction -- Bargue's early career -- From craftsman to artist: Bargue's early development -- Bargue and Goupil and Cie -- Goupil's reductions -- The Drawing course -- Bargue's work during the 1870 -- A possible voyage to the Near East: Bargue's first orientalist painting -- A Rococo theme: the artist and his model of 1874 -- Compositional experiments -- The artist and his model of 1878 -- Mosque scenes -- A Bashi-Bazouk and some Albanians -- Bargue's final five years, 1878-83 -- Two Chess games -- Bargue's death -- A preliminary catalogue of Bargue's paintings -- Drawings by Bargue reproduced in this study.

"This book is a complete reprint of the fabled but rare Drawing Course (Cours de Dessin) of Charles Bargue and Jean-Léon Gérôme, published in Paris in the 1860s and 1870s. For most of the next half-century, this set of nearly 200 masterful lithographs was copied by art students worldwide before they attempted to draw from a live model. This book will be valuable to a wide range of artists, students, art historians and collectors, even as it introduces them to the hitherto-neglected master, Charles Bargue."-- Back cover.