Quelqu[es f]igures, chevaux [et] paysages

Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714 · 1722 · A Paris : Chez Jeaurat au bas des fossez S. Victor · 16 pictures

A 1722 Paris drawing manual published by Jeaurat and compiled from the etchings of Sébastien Le Clerc (1637-1714), intended for students learning to draw figures, horses and landscapes. The plates are small etchings of street scenes, walled towns, a cloaked figure beside a tree, and groups of people in outdoor settings, showing how to render costume, architecture and open ground with economical, cross-hatched line that a designer could borrow for sketchy figure studies or period street scenes.

Drawing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Early works to 1800

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