Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.10339
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Views of the reclining male figure
Date
1663
Creator
Unknown, Engraver
After
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X4/2
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 183mm
width (print): 235mm
width (print): 235mm
Subject
Content object
Description
This diagram illustrates the reclining anatomical proportions of the male figure; one is a side view, one from above and one a feet-first foreshortened view.
Plate 29 from La Vraye Science de la Pourtraicture Descrite & Demonstrée by Jean Cousin (Paris, Francois Demasso, 1663). Inscribed: ‘Figure entiere du corps humain racourcie de front, veuë par la plante des pieds, le ventre dessus. 35 I3’
Plate 29 from La Vraye Science de la Pourtraicture Descrite & Demonstrée by Jean Cousin (Paris, Francois Demasso, 1663). Inscribed: ‘Figure entiere du corps humain racourcie de front, veuë par la plante des pieds, le ventre dessus. 35 I3’
Object history
Jean Cousin’s publication was created to assist those involved in the arts (‘painters, sculptures, goldsmiths, architects, carpenters’) in the ‘true science’ of anatomy and portraiture. It proved very popular and from its first publication in c.1595, continued to be reprinted until the late 17th century.
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