Recueil de testes de caractere & de charges
A 1730 Paris collection of character heads and caricatures published by J. Mariette, with the comte de Caylus and Pierre Jean Mariette as makers and Leonardo da Vinci credited as the source of the studies. It was made for artists and students of expression and physiognomy. Each plate shows a single male head and shoulders in profile or three-quarter view inside a double-ruled roundel, numbered at the bottom. The pictures are fine pen and hatched line drawings of grotesque old men with exaggerated noses, jaws and expressions, a useful reference for designers working on character types, caricature and facial exaggeration.
