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maquette|mæˈkɛt|
[Fr. (1752), ad. It. macchietta speck, little spot, dim. of macchia spot, f. macchiare to spot, stain, f. L. maculāre; cf. maculate v.]
A small preliminary model, in wax or clay, etc., or a preliminary painted sketch, from which a work in sculpture is elaborated. Also transf. and fig.
1903Athenæum 24 Jan. 122/3 M. J. B. E. Detaille has, after a long delay, executed four maquettes, each comprehending three large panels. 1926W. J. Locke Stories Near & Far 78 The maquette or model in clay. 1951H. Read Meaning of Art (ed. 3) ii. 240 The sculptor's maquette, or model, was reproduced, generally by other hands, either by being cast in bronze, or by being reproduced to scale by mechanical methods in marble. 1958Times 8 Oct. 6/4 One might describe his art as a prolonged maquette for some ultimate synthesis or other. 1965Zigrosser & Gaedhe Guide to Collecting Orig. Prints ii. 16 In some instances, the artist has actively collaborated in the adaptation of his own maquette, or sketch, by working on the plates or stones, and by ‘proving’ and approving the color separations. 1970Country Life 31 Dec. 1280/3 This was the noble terra-cotta of a mourning woman..the maquette for the figure of the wife on the Westminster Abbey monument to the poet Nicholas Rowe. 1972P. Marks Collector's Choice iii. 181, I don't know why you had to go out and buy those Carpeaux maquettes last week. 1973Times 11 Apr. 6/4 (caption) A maquette of Henry Moore's ‘Family Group’. |