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Les premiers élémens de la peinture pratique enrichis de figures de proportion mesurées sur l'antique dessinées et gravées par J.B. Corneille
First edition of this scarce painting manual which contains the earliest known engraving of a palette. ‘This treatise on painting had a tremendous influence in its time’ (Birren, The History of Colour in Painting, pp. 44-45). It was also one of the earliest books which gave practical information about the working methods of painters in France; see Schmid, The Practice of Painting, p. 47.