[Rarebooks] FS: 1801 Book on Ideal Human Bodies for Sculpture

[Joslin Hall Rare Books]

TITLE: "Les Proportions du Corps Human, Mesurees sur les plus belles
Figures de l’Antiquite"

By Gerard Audran.
Printed in Paris by Chez Joubert in 1801.

DISCUSSION: A reissue of the 1683 edition. Gerard Audran [1640-1701] came
from an artistic family in Lyon and was taught engraving by his father,
Claude. He worked for Le Brun in Paris, and gained favor with the patron
J. B. Colbert, through whose efforts he was appointed engraver to Louis
XIV. This work is an interesting study of ideal human proportions for
artists, based on ancient sculpture he studied while in Rome.

DESCRIPTION: Hardcover. 10.5”x16”, title page, 4 pages of text, 1 page
advertisement, and 30 engraved plates. Bound in old marbled boards with a
plain leather spine.

CONDITION NOTES: Covers with some wear. Pages lightly age-toned, title
page with some soil, a small hole near the margin. Some 2 chips to the
edge of Plate 27 (not affecting text or image), light stain runs across
the top of most of the plates.

PRICE: $250~ net, ppd.

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