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Cover Legend: Bust of a Woman (end of 18th C, anatomical model in wax on a wooden armature, disassembled) by Andre-Pierre Pinson 1746-1828. Pinson, son of a surgeon, not only became a surgeon himself, but also an anatomist/sculptor whose masterworks of wax sculpture were created during the golden age of French anatomy that culminated in the school of Bichat. Pinson's wax sculptures are neo-classic in style and recall the better-known painted images of David or Ingres. In 1792, he married the talented painter Isabelle Proteau, a student of Baron Regnault (1754-1829); their wedding was witnessed the famous sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon. Isabelle's works were exhibited at the annual Salons of the Louvre from 1796 to 1812. After the revolution, Andre-Pierre's wax models, which had been in the collection of the Duc D'Orleans became prize holdings of the Musee national d'histoire naturelle. (Photograph from an exhibition at Nancy, Catalogue published as Changeux J-P "La Lumiére au Siecle des Lumières & ajourd'hui" Odile Jacob Paris 2005 (http://www.odilejacob.fr/catalogue/index.php?op=par_auteur&auteur=26&cat=0204&c=C&count=20) (photograph by Bernard Faye with the permission of Mme Van de Ponseele Service iconographique Bibliothèque du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle).