Drawing Pedagogy in Modern France

This study uncovers the plethora of new, innovative drawing strategies that shaped French visual arts at the height of France’s imperial power.

Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Eugene Guillaume, and Félix Ravaisson, among others, designed new drawing procedures that responded to leading concerns of modern art and the exigencies of modern life: landscape painting and picturesque tourism, industrial desi...