Author: Charles Bargue
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Charles Bargue was a French artist and lithographer who devised a drawing course in the late 1800's. The course was titled "Cours de Dessin". It was one of the most influential classical drawing courses conceived in collaboration with Jean-Léon Gérôme. The course was published between 1866 and 1871 by Goupil and Cie. It consisted of 197 lithographs printed as individual sheets that were to be used to guide students from plaster casts to the study of great master drawings and finally to drawing from the living model. Among the artists whose work is based on the study of Bargue's platework is Vincent van Gogh, who copied the complete set in 1880-1881, and again in 1890. This set of photographs includes many of the original plates from this course.
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