Traité Élémentaire Des Règles Du Dessin
An elementary French drawing manual by Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio, published in 1800 and drawn from the Heidelberg University Library copy, intended for students learning to draw the human figure. The plates are numbered engravings of muscles of the leg, bones and muscles of the arm, and grids of head proportions with profile studies. A designer could take from them the construction logic of the figure, using simple measuring grids and stepped profile sequences as a basis for diagrams or anatomical line work.
