Dessein, contenant 39 planches, dont 37 simples et une double
A late eighteenth-century French drawing manual by Charles Nicolas Cochin, published in Paris in 1777 for art students learning to draw the figure. Its plates show classical statues with proportion lines marked on them, a standing nude male with a vertical axis, and studies of heads in several expressions and angles. A designer could take from them the clean contour line, the measuring-grid method of checking proportion, and the way a head turns in three quarters.
