1676 Art Of Portraiture Jean Cousin Sculpting Artistic Anatomy Drawing French
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1676 Art of Portraiture JeanCousin Sculpting Artistic Anatomy Drawing French A rare 1676 edition of Jean Cousin’s, a 16th-century Frenchpainter, ‘Science of the Portrait.’ While this book was initially intended tobe an instructional manual on drawing the human form, it quickly became asfamous, or more so, as his father’s Book on Perspective. The Cousin name wassynonymous during the 16th-and 17th-century with paintingand sculpting. Their art books were so popular that ther...e are no known existingcopies of any of the 1571 or 1589 editions left today! No other books are as famous or well-known in the artistic-anatomy fieldas these! Item number: #4696Price: $1750 COUSIN, Jean (the younger). La vraye sciencede la pourtraicture descrite et demontrée par maistre Jean Cousin, peintregeometrien tres-excellent A Paris :Chez Guillaume le Be, ́ ruë S. Iean de Beauvais, pres le Puits-Certain, 1676. Details: · Collation: Complete with all pageso Added engraved title-page with decorative bordero 40 leaves with 36 woodcut illustrations· Language: French· Binding: Leather; tight & secure· Size: ~8inX 10in (20cm x 25.5cm) OurGuarantee:VeryFast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide.Customersatisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we willoffer a full refund without reservation! 4696
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