This drawing has quite a history attached to it. The young lady was found in the Seine River in Paris, France in the mid-1800's. The girl's identity was unknown. The undertaker was so taken with her peaceful look, that he had a death mask created from her face. This was a common practice at this time. After seeing this death mask, Mr. Bargue then drew this picture from the mask and her face circulated around the globe in his set of lithographs. The creator of the first CPR dummy chose this face for his dummy model. The current CPR model does not have her face. Isn't it ironic that she left this world an unknown, only to be famous in death?
Our afternoon lecture was on Northern Renaissance Painting. It followed the timeline of the birth of oil painting with the Dutch artists and its migration south. Some of these artists are Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, Pieter Brugel, and Jan Van Eyck . The common traits of their art included : oil paint on panels, thin oil glazes, rendering of minute detail, smooth finish to the paint surface, luminous colors, and well planned compositions of interiors and portraits. Any of these characteristics sound familiar from our classes?
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