Early 19th Century Wooden Artist Mannequin in Grand Size

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32" (81 cm.) All-wooden artist mannequin with well defined carved facial features, has swivel head, shapely torso with ball-swivel waist, dowel jointing at shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles and defined fingers and toes. Condition: generally excellent. Comments: the artist mannequin appeared in trade catalogs as early as the 1700s, and remained in continuous production for more than a century; its style, in fact, was the inspiration for the wooden poupee body deposed by Leon Casimir Bru in 1867. Value Points: well-preserved artist mannequin features sensitive carving of face and anatomy, with well retained articulation and is a rare grand size.