THE ARTISTIC ANATOMY OF 



ANIMALS 



INTRODUCTION 



GENERALITIES OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 



Of the animals by which we are surrounded, there are some 

 which, occupying a place in our lives by reason of their 

 natural endowments, are frequently represented in the works 

 of artists — either as accompanying man in his work or in 

 his amusements, or as intended to occupy the whole interest 

 of the composition. 



The necessity of knowing, from an artistic point of view, 

 the structure of the human body makes clear the importance 

 we attach, from the same point of view, to the study of the 

 anatomv of animals — that is, the study of comparative 

 anatomy. The name employed to designate this branch of 

 anatomy shows that the object of this science is the study 

 of the relative position and form which each region presents 

 in all organized beings, taking for comparison the correspond- 

 ing regions in man. The head in animals compared with 

 the human head ; the trunk and limbs compared to the 

 trunk and limbs of the human being — this is the analysis we 

 undertake, and the plan of the subject we are about to 

 commence. 



Our intention being, as we have just said, the comparison 

 of the structure of animals with that of man, should we 

 describe the anatomy of the human being in the pages 



