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

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.

From New York Times

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

From BBC

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.

From BBC

The maquette, a preliminary clay model of the statue, captures his charming smile and Frank sitting on a river’s edge as salmon leap from the water.

From Seattle Times

Rylance is part of a crowdfunding campaign to erect a small bronze maquette, which has already been created by artist Amanda Ward, on a plinth opposite the big guns of the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth.

From BBC