Cours complet d'études pour la figure : d'après les plus beaux modèles de l'antiquité et les tableaux des grands maîtres
A French drawing manual of 1830 by Gédéon François Reverdin, published in Paris, Geneva and London, meant for students learning figure drawing from antique sculpture and old master paintings. The plates show engraved studies of faces in profile and three-quarter view, plus a hand, rendered in soft stipple shading and fine outline. A designer could take from them the clean contour of profile lines against smooth tonal modelling, useful for classical portrait references.
