La vraye science de la pourtraicture
By: descrite et demontrée par maistre Jean Cousin, peintre & geometrien tres-excellent.
Contributors: Yudin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chez Guillaume le Be,́ ruë S. Iean de Beauvais, pres le Puits-Certain
Published: 1676
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Anatomy, Artistic -- Early works to 1800.; Human figure in art -- Early works to 1800.; Wood-engraving, French -- 16th century.; Engraving, French.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Vrai science de la portraiture
Notes: "Representant par une facile instruction plusieurs plans & figures de toutes les parties separées du corps humain .... Fort utile & necessaire aux peintres, statuaires, architectes, orfèvres, brodeurs, menuisiers, & generalement à tous ceux qui aiment l'art de peinture, & de sculpture."
Signatures: A-K⁴.
BN, v. 33, col. 586, lists 1647 edition by this publisher.
LC copy incomplete: leaves 1 (added t.p.) and 38-40 wanting. Trimmed to 17 x 24 cm. From the Yudin Collection; has Yudin's blind stamp on leaf 13. Has ink stamp on t.p.: Theodore Karjavine. Has pencilled bibliographic notes in French on verso of first of 2 blank leaves bound in at front. Ms. note in Russian on leaf 37 verso: Prochee nedostaet, da vzi͡a︡tʹ négdi͡e︡; kniga cīi͡a︡ ri͡e︡dko popadaetsi͡a︡ (the rest wanting, and nowhere to get it; this book is rarely found).