maquette

[ma-ket, muh-]

noun

1. a small model or study in three dimensions for either a sculptural or an architectural project.

maquette

/ mæˈkɛt /

noun

1. a sculptor's small preliminary model or sketch

Word History and Origins

Origin of maquette¹

1900–05; < French < Italian macchietta, diminutive of macchia a sketch, complex of lines < Latin macula mesh, spot

Word History and Origins

Origin of maquette¹

C20: from French, from Italian macchietta a little sketch, from macchia, from macchiare, from Latin maculāre to stain, from macula spot, blemish

Example Sentences

To demonstrate, Close’s meticulously detailed head of mustachioed “Robert,” 9 feet tall, is installed next to its maquette, an enlarged and subdivided black-and-white photograph overlaid with a tight grid.

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To illustrate the idea, he built a maquette with a Fleshlight sex toy and an empty toilet paper roll.

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It was late December, and we were sitting in a room in his upstate New York studio whose nondescript furniture was dotted with evidence of ongoing work on Venice: a maquette here, paint samples there, a test flag folded loosely in a chair.

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Dame Hepworth's brass 1957 sculpture Maquette For Winged Figure also went under the hammer and sold for £277,200.

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Other works going under the hammer include the Landscape Sculpture, which looks like a stringed instrument, the brass sculpture Maquette For Winged Figure, and an oil and pencil work called Atlantic Form, Blue.

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