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<dl><dd>Illustrations are on 12 double leaves, hinged onto stubs at the centerfold. The 1st is an engraving by Audran after a painting by L[ouis] Testelin. The 2nd is the dedication to Charles le Brun. Six are engraved tables of precepts on painting. That preceding p. 13 depicts classical statues and is entitled: Exemple touchant les proportions et les contours. Others are after paintings or drawings by Poussin, Le Brun (têtes d'expression), Raphael. Engraved t.p. vignette with arms of Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. Headpiece on p. 9 after Le Brun</dd>
<dd>No publication date. The plate preceding p. 13 bears the date 1681. Charles le Brun, the dedicatee, died in 1690, and the Paris ed. of 1696 lacks the dedication to him</dd>
<dd>Tables 4 and 5 reversed in Library's copy</dd>
<dd>Binding: vellum</dd>
<dd>Centered on front pastedown is calligraphic label of Theodore Besterman, signed in the plate P.S. Above it is inscription: E Le Monnier / no: 362</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Painting; Sculpture</div>
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<dl><dd>Testelin, Henri, 1616-1695</dd>
<dd>Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (France)</dd></dl></div>
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