Author: AUDRAN Girard :
Title: Les Proportions du Corps Humain , Mesurées sur les plus belles Figures de l'Antiquité.
Description: Paris, Chez Girard Audran, Graveur du Roy, rue S. Jacques aux deux Piliers d'or. 1683, in-folio, 400 x 252 mm, (8) nn pp + 30 engraved plates, sewn, old marbled wrapper, uncut copy. Margins a bit dustsoiled but a fine copy printed on strong paper Girard (or Gérard) Audran ( Lyon 1640 - Paris 1703 ) resided some time in Rome. He studied classical sculpture there and published this book with engravings on the proportions of the human body. The engravings depict statues which he studied in Rome and with exact measures added to the different parts of the body. .

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