Jean (1490) Cousin Sold at Auction Prices

Attribué à Jean Cousin (Soucy 1490/1500-Paris 1560) Étude d’homme en pied Plume et encre brune sur traits de crayon noir 26,...

Attribué à Jean Cousin (Soucy 1490/1500-Paris 1560) Étude d'homme en pied Plume et encre brune sur traits de crayon noir 26,5 × 16,5 cm Annoté Jean Cousin en bas à droite Repris au verso à l'identique en sens inverse (Quelques rousseurs)

Jean Cousin, Le Sauveur Descendu de la Croix, Heliogravure

Artist: Jean Cousin, After by Amand Durand, French (1495 - 1560) || Title: Le Sauveur Descendu de la Croix || Year: Printed 1878 || Medium: Heliogravure || Size: 7.5 x 12 in. (19.05 x 30.48 cm)

COUSIN, Jean (ca 1490-1560). Livre De Perspective. Paris: Jean Le Royer, 1560. Large 2υo (409 x 281 mm). 58 woodcut geometrical diagrams (5 folding, 16 full-page) by Le Royer and Aubin Olivier after Cousin; with small overslip on C3v, often lacking. (Some minor pale dampstaining to some upper margins, a2 shaved slightly at fore-margin, without final blank R4.) Contemporary vellum, remnant of one leather tie (front hinge cracked); cloth case. Provenance: Robert Hoe (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this rare work on perspective, described by Updike as "one of the handsomest volumes of its time." Cousin was the leading theorist on artistic perspective in sixteenth century France and is credited with perfecting the tiers points technique: "a reliable, comprehensive and substantially accurate method for tackling the construction of space and the foreshortening of solid bodies" (Kemp, The Science of Art). The large woodcut frontispiece is "singularly inventive with its foreshortened perspective, displaying five polyhedrons set in a framework supported by acrobatic nudes. Later generations elaborated such frameworks in the painting of baroque ceilings" (Wick, Sixteenth Century Architectural Books 30). Adams C-2852; Berlin Kat. 4690; Cicognara 832; Mortimer French 157; Updike I, p.202. Fact and Fantasy 37.

COUSIN, Jean (ca 1490-1560). Livre de perspective . Paris: Le Royer, 1560.

COUSIN, Jean (ca 1490-1560). Livre de perspective. Paris: Le Royer, 1560. 2υo (417 x 281 mm). 58 woodcut geometrical diagrams (5 folding, 16 full-page) by Le Royer and Aubin Olivier. (Without the small overslip on C3 as often, a2 shaved.) Contemporary vellum, ruled in gold and with gilt decorative center pieces on covers, edges gilt. Provenance: Solmss Laubach (bookplate, stamp on title verso). FIRST EDITION of this rare work on perspective, described by Updike as "one of the handsomest volumes of its time." Cousin was the leading theorist on artists' perspective in sixteenth century France and is credited with perfecting the tiers points technique: "a reliable, comprehensive and substantially accurate method for tackling the construction of space and the foreshortening of solid bodies" (Kemp, The Science of Art). The large woodcut frontispiece is "singularly inventice with its foreshortened perspective, displaying five polyhedrons set in a framework supported by acrobatic nudes. Later generations elaborated such frameworks in the painting of baroque ceilings" (Wick, Sixteenth Century Architectural Books 30). Adams C-2852; Berlin Kat. 4690; Cicognara 832; Mortimer Harvard French 157; Updike I, p.202.

COUSIN, JEAN (?1490-1560).

Livre de perspective. Paris: Jehan le Royer, 1560 Condition Note: folio (373 x 265mm.), ff. [72], illustration : woodcut device on title-page, woodcut frontispiece, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, woodcut diagrams (5 folding), binding : seventeenth-century calf, title-page foxed and chipped, frontispiece cropped and repaired, G3 torn, a few diagrams shaved, other occasional light browning, joints splitting, binding worn