L'art de connaitre les hommes par la physionomie
A 1806 Paris edition of Johann Caspar Lavater's treatise on physiognomy, reading character from facial profiles, published by Prudhomme and Levrault, Schoell for a general readership of the period. The four profile heads are drawn in plain outline with hatched shading, showing men in eighteenth-century powdered queues and later cropped hair, with a designer able to borrow the profile silhouette and cross-hatched tonal modelling as a clear, unfussy method for portrait studies.
