Portrait of a Man after Plaster Cast

The drawing depicts a male head, drawn after a plaster cast used in the educational practice of the Metropolitan Municipal Technical Drawing School (1886-1945) in Budapest in the last decades of the 19th century and at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The use of the plaster casts in the drawing education, was a widespread practice in the 19th century, therefore drawing schools owned huge collection of plaster casts made after mostly the artworks of Classical Antiquity. completed with some examples of famous contemporary personalities. The creator of this freehand study drawing is the later well-known portraitist in England, Fülöp László (1869-1937), who attended the predecessor drawing school of the Metropolitan Municipal Technical Drawing School in 1884-1885, under his original family name Fülöp Laub. Although the drawing was made after a plaster cast, Laub experimented to depict the individual features of the model.
Laub, Fülöp: Portrait of a Man after Plaster Cast, 1885 © Schola Graphidis Art Collection, Hungarian University of Fine Arts - High School of Visual Arts, Budapest