Divers desseins de figures, et de paysages, pour apprendre à dessiner à la plume : dédiez à Monsieur Colbert d'Ormoy
A late seventeenth-century French drawing manual by Sébastien Le Clerc (1637-1714), published in Paris by Chereau the younger and dedicated to Monsieur Colbert d'Ormoy, meant to teach pen drawing of figures and landscapes. Its etched plates show a cloaked man and a standing gentleman facing each other, a figure seen from behind in a courtyard, and a labourer with a spade beside a tree framing a distant town, a clear model for pen-and-ink studies of figures and landscape.
