A horse and its rider made between 1760 and 1793 by the French anatomist Honoré Fragonard (1732-1799). The sculpture is based on The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürerpic.twitter.com/K0nbrPzqKE
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Plastic resin between 1760 and 1793?
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Injections into the vessels; Not wax but sheeps tallow. Then Fragonard varnished dry anatomic parts with larch resin, the turpentine from Venice, to avoid attack by destructive insects.
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