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A small detachable anatomic head by Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux (1797-1880) France, 19th century 十九世紀 法國 Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux(1797-1880年)製紙雕頭部解剖小模型

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A small detachable anatomic head by Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux (1797-1880)

France, 19th century

十九世紀 法國 Louis Thomas Jerome Auzoux(1797-1880年)製紙雕頭部解剖小模型


the model in papier-mâché, depicting a cross-section of the left face, the reverse with paper labels denoting the muscles and veins, metal stand


overall 18.2 cm, stand h. 25.7 cm

Louis Auzoux obtained the medical degree in 1818 and was appointed to the surgical department of the Hotel-Dieu with Guillaume Dupuytren. In 1820 he visited the papier-mâché workshop of Francois Ameline and later, in 1827, he set up a workshop making very accurate human and veterinary anatomical models in Saint-Aubin-d'E'crosville, his Normandy birthplace. Auzoux also made large-scale zoological and botanical models for educational use. The models were called "anatomy clastique" (from Greek 'klastos', which means 'broken in pieces'), because they could be taken apart to show the full structure. For more information, see B.W.J. Grob, 'The anatomical models of Louis Auzoux', A Descriptive Catalogue, Museum Boerhave, Leiden, 2004; and Bart Grob, Elizabet Nijhoff Asser and E. Manu' Giaccone, Papieren anatomie: de wonderschone papier-mache'modellen van dokter Auzoux, Zutphen, 2008.