{"id":2924,"date":"2023-01-31T04:02:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T04:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/?p=2924"},"modified":"2024-03-30T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T08:51:02","slug":"bibliotheque-nationale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/bibliotheque-nationale\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawings from the French National Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2924 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230079online-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230079online-s-500x479.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230079online-s-500x479.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230079online-s-1024x981.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230079online-s-150x144.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230079online-s-768x736.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230079online-s.jpg 1105w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230083online-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230083online-s-500x696.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230083online-s-500x696.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230083online-s-736x1024.jpg 736w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230083online-s-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230083online-s-768x1068.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230083online-s.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230104-s-L.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230104-s-L-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230104-s-L-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230104-s-L-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230104-s-L-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230104-s-L-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230104-s-L.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Incredible exhibition of eighteenth-century drawings from the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France (French National Library) at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts. The point\u00a0 was to show drawings that were made for all sorts of purposes other than just sketches for paintings or to practice drawing human figures, which normally are just about only kind you ever see in museums and the reason why the drawings galleries are the boring ones you always skip (admit it!) This showed how exciting the drawings departments <em>could<\/em> be.<\/p>\n<p>Above: Design for a toy carriage; shells by \u00c9milie Bonnieu, one of the many women who had lucrative careers producing illustrations of natural specimens; Parisian street vendors with their cries notated<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Scientific illustration; drawing by Louis XVIII of a woman milking a cow (yes actually drawn by the king); on-site sketches of beheadings at the storming of the Bastille, July 1789 by Anne-Louis Girodet<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-2924 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230034-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230034-s-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230034-s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230034-s-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230034-s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230034-s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230034-s.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230044-s-rotated.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230044-s-500x667.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230044-s-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230044-s-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230044-s-rotated.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230090-sL.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230090-sL-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230090-sL-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230090-sL-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230090-sL-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230090-sL-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230090-sL.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Building designs by \u00c9tienne-Louis Boull\u00e9e: Monument to Isaac Newton (1, 2) as a hollow 500-foot diameter sphere lit only by small holes representing stars; close-up of the tomb (2); a library (3, 4); museum (5). These are his original ink drawings which he had copied into engravings which were widely distributed and you may have seen.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-3' class='gallery galleryid-2924 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"1\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230062online-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"323\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230062online-web-500x323.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-2934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230062online-web-500x323.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230062online-web-1024x662.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230062online-web-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230062online-web-768x496.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230062online-web.jpg 1315w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-2934'>\n\t\t\t\t1\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"2\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230063-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230063-web-500x290.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-2933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230063-web-500x290.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230063-web-1024x594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230063-web-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230063-web-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230063-web.jpg 1374w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-2933'>\n\t\t\t\t2\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"3\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230059-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230059-s-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-2936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230059-s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230059-s-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230059-s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230059-s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230059-s.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-2936'>\n\t\t\t\t3\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"4\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230061-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230061-s-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-2935\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230061-s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230061-s-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230061-s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230061-s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230061-s.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-2935'>\n\t\t\t\t4\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"5\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230064-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230064-s-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-3-2937\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230064-s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230064-s-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230064-s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230064-s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230064-s.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-3-2937'>\n\t\t\t\t5\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Cartoon of a woman having her hair styled by putti (cherubs) who are delivering a letter to her lover who looks in from a window while her husband&#8217;s face is echoed by the monkey next to him.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-4' class='gallery galleryid-2924 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-L-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-L-web-500x680.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-L-web-500x680.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-L-web-110x150.jpg 110w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-L-web.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-c2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"396\" height=\"565\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-c2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-c2.jpg 396w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-c2-105x150.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-c1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-c1-500x395.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-c1-500x395.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-c1-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230101online-c1.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Designs for an ark where the torah is kept in a synagogue and for an altar for a new religion called Theophilanthropy by Jean-Jacques Lequeu; winnowing grain<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-5' class='gallery galleryid-2924 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230075-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230075-s-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230075-s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230075-s-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230075-s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230075-s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230075-s.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230108-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230108-s-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230108-s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230108-s-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230108-s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230108-s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230108-s.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230109-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230109-s-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230109-s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230109-s-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230109-s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230109-s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230109-s.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Design for screen with episodes from Jean de la Fontaine&#8217;s adaptations of Aesop&#8217;s fables; auction catalogue with sketches of the paintings for sale in the margins; owls by Jean-Jacques Lequeu who was mainly an architect and left hardly any drawings of animals<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-6' class='gallery galleryid-2924 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230077online-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230077online-s-500x312.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230077online-s-500x312.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230077online-s-1024x639.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230077online-s-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230077online-s-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230077online-s.jpg 1138w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230099-cL-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230099-cL-web-500x595.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230099-cL-web-500x595.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230099-cL-web-126x150.jpg 126w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230099-cL-web.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230085online-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"812\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230085online-s-500x812.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230085online-s-500x812.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230085online-s-631x1024.jpg 631w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230085online-s-92x150.jpg 92w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230085online-s.jpg 651w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Three different instruments related to drawing.<br \/>\n1) Physiognotrace, for producing life-size or nearly life-size portraits<br \/>\n2) Multi-function portable device that folds up into a trompe-l&#8217;oeil book that can be placed on shelf; it works as a camera obscura for sketching and as a device for 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title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230081-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230081-s-500x667.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230081-s-500x667.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230081-s-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230081-s.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a title=\"\"  href='https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230068-s.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230068-s-500x375.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230068-s-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230068-s-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230068-s-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230068-s-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/L1230068-s.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incredible exhibition of eighteenth-century drawings from the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France (French National Library) at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts. The point\u00a0 was to show drawings that were made for all sorts of purposes other than just sketches for paintings or to practice drawing human figures, which normally are just about only kind you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/bibliotheque-nationale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Drawings from the French National Library&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[54,56],"class_list":["post-2924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-museums","tag-bibliotheque-nationale-de-france","tag-boullee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3152,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardkarty.org\/view\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}