Maquette

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux's maquette for the fountain he donated to Valenciennes

A maquette is a scale model or rough draft of an unfinished sculpture or work of architecture.[1] The term is a loanword from French. An equivalent term is bozzetto,[2] a diminutive of the Italian word for a sketch.[3]

  1. ^ Merriam-Webster dictionary
  2. ^ "bozzetto". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2022-01-20.
  3. ^ Merriam-Webster dictionary