Mar 12, 2009 - Sale 2173

Sale 2173 - Lot 165

Price Realized: $ 840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(ARTIST'S MANUALS.) Cousin, Jean. L'art de dessiner . . . Revu, Corrigé et Augmenté. Engraved allegorical title, letterpress title, and 33 engraved plates illustrating the proportions of different parts of the body. Small oblong folio, 19th century boards, worn; scattered mild soiling, creasing, and foxing, few worm holes near gutter with some repairs; contemporary owner's signatures on titles. Paris: François Chereau, 1750
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Rare, early drawing manual. The 16th-century Cousin and his father, also Jean, were French painters and engravers of the Renaissance and were famous for their work in stained glass and tapestry designs. This work, attributed to the younger Cousin, was first printed in 1560. "His considerable reputation as a designer of woodcuts for the Paris printers has been developed chiefly by comparison of details from this volume"--Mortimer, French, I, 157-158 (who notes that this work is insufficiently documented).