1676 DRAWING BOOK by Jean Cousin antique ILLUSTRATED w/ 33 MAGNIFICENT WOODCUTS

Portraiture

Cousin (Jean)


La vraye science de la pourtraicture descrite et demontree .
Representant par une facile instruction plusieurs plans & figures de toutes les parties separees du corps humain: ensemble les figures entieres, tant d'hommes que femmes & de petits enfans, veues de front, de fil, & de dos, avec les proportions, mesures & dimensions dícelles: et certaines regles pour racourcir par art toutes lesdites figures.


Paris, Guillaume le Be; 1676


33 whole page woodcut illustrations (of 36; lacking B4, D2, K4). Also lacks frontis.

some minor and sympathetic repairs to lower fore-edge corners, a paper repair final f. at gutter foot, 

some  spotting, modern calf-backed marbled boards, new endpapers


 size: 7 by 9 3/4 inches

 Text in French
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"The True Science of Portraiture Described and Demonstrated"  a celebrated drawing book, written by Jean Cousin the Younger (ca. 1522-1595), intended for the use of all kinds of draughtsmen and artists, including painters, sculptors, architects, goldsmiths, embroiderers and cabinetmakers.
The woodcuts show anatomical figures or body parts, with notes on the proper perspectives and proportions, influenced by the theories of Vitruvius.

Explains the proportions of the human body for the art of painting, including figures of men, women and children seen from different perspectives (front, profile, back).
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