African Venus by Sheryl Carkhum-Lord

Author:Sheryl Carkhum-Lord [Carkhum-Lord, Sheryl]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Children's eBooks, Children's Books, United States, Historical, African American, Literature & Fiction
Amazon: B00SZ0SX4M
Published: 2015-01-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Charles Cordier was not your typical celebrated artist. He had trained under Francisco Reede and developed the opulence style that the French aristocrats loved. Charles Cordier was the fourth child of a pharmacist born in the south of France in November 1827. He showed artistic prowess early on and received recognition at the local art school. Young Cordier was five feet five and had curly dark-brown hair receding at the brow line. His hair continued down the sides of his face into a beard, mustache, and goatee. He had attentive brown eyes and a long flat nose that jutted out over his mouth. His hands were strong and with nimble fingers that aided him when working on his masterpieces. He was a traveler, and other parts of the world intrigued him. But what set him apart from his contemporaries was the belief in the human spectrum of beauty. It was early 1847, and he had just returned from southern Spain in search of a wide range of colored marbles that excited him. The trip home to France gave him an opportunity to think about their potential uses. He longed for his studio at the academy. To be able to work the cold stone into a fine bust of some aristocrat would be financially rewarding, but he had other ideas.

He was an indulger of fragmentary ideas. Images as stunning as the stone raced through his head. He would beautify and immortalize the major races of the world in a new way.

Cordier wanted to meet his new specimen as soon as possible. He wondered what her bone structure was like, the contours of her neck, lips, and cheekbones. In his second correspondence to Dr. Nivelles, he inquired into her health and readiness.

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