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Igout, Louis
(active 1870s-1880s)Album d’Études–Poses

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Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Album d’Études-Poses. 1880s. 39 albumen prints, mounted to album pages. Each ca. 20,5 x 14 cm (30,5 x 24,5 cm). Bound in original half-cloth folio album with gilt-stamped title “Album d’Études-Poses” on the spine as well as printed publisher’s caption “A. Calavas Éditeur, - 68, Rue de Lafayette, PARIS.” on each mount.

This instructional album by Louis Igout was produced around 1880 as a visual aid for artists, sculptors, and illustrators aiming to master anatomy, gesture, and classical composition. Published by A. Calavas in Paris, the album features carefully posed nude studies of men, women, and children, referencing scenes from mythology, antiquity, and the Bible - including Cain and Abel, The Dying Gaul, Hercules and Antaeus, The Drunken Silenus, and the Cnidian Aphrodite, among others. Rendered with academic precision, the photographs served both as instructional models and as a catalogue from which artists could order enlarged prints tailored to their specific needs. A similar album is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York. – Some fading, especially around the edges, some scuff marks; a few prints with white spots; otherwise mostly strong in tone and in good to very good condition.