Lot 1079: HURET, GREGOIRE (1606-1670).

Optique de portraiture et peinture, en deux parties. La premiere est la perspective pratique acomplie... La deuxieme partie contient la perspective speculative... Paris: (André Cramoisy for) the author, 1670

Condition Note:

first edition, folio (375 x 257mm.), [14], 159, [1 (blank)] pp., illustration : 2 engraved frontispieces, woodcut device on title-page, woodcut initials, 8 folding engraved plates, binding : eighteenth-century vellum-backed boards, binding slightly scraped and soiled

The son of a carpenter, Huret began life as an engraver. In 1646 he was 'dessinateur et graveur de la maison du Roi', and eight years later set up his shop in Paris where he published many suites of engravings, many of religious subjects or portraits. This is his only work of theory.