Les premiers elemens de la peinture pratique : enrichis de figures de proportion mesurées sur l'antique
A French painting manual by Roger de Piles, published in Paris by Nicolas Langlois in 1684 for students learning studio practice, with engraved plates after Jean-Baptiste Corneille and Sébastien Le Clerc's academy figures. The engravings show palettes with numbered rows of pigment dabs, brushes and maulsticks crossed in ornamental headpieces, proportion diagrams measured from antique statues, and woodcut initials set in diamonds ringed with cherub heads.
