Œuvres choisies de Sébastien Le Clerc, chevalier romain, dessinateur et graveur du cabinet du roi : contenant 239 estampes, dessinées & gravées par ce célèbre artiste, représentant des costumes, des fables, des paysages, & autres objets intéressants : ouvrage utile aux artistes & aux elèves des beaux-arts
A 1784 Paris collection of 239 prints by Sébastien Le Clerc (1637-1714), draftsman and engraver to the French king, issued by the bookseller Lamy as a practical resource for artists and art students. The pictures are etched figure studies of costumes, fables and landscapes, arranged in small framed panels on each page, with some plates showing single standing figures in period dress. A designer could take from them the cut of seventeenth-century coats, hats and skirts, and the simple staging of figures in open terrain.
