ID: 700001094 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001094	Record Type: Movable Work

Liure pour aprendre à désigner auec les proportions des parties qui ont esté choisie dans les ouvrages de N. Poussin, (etchings (prints); Pesne, Jean (printmaker, 1623-1700); published: Chez Audran;...; Published: ca. 1680; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 363591; (OCoLC)ocm79696287; accession number: 2003.PR.148*)

Note: Title from plate [2]; Date from: Wildenstein; The series of prints are after studies by Nicolas Poussin representing facial features, gestures and parts of the body, with indications for drawing and measuring models; Contents: parties du visage d'une Venus antique mesurèes de leurs mesmes grandeurs --; parties du visage mesurèes de la mesme grandeur quelles sont en la statue d'Apollon Pythien qui est au jardin du Vaticant --; Je diuise la teste en quatre parties et l'vne des parties en douze minutes des quelles mesures je forme une echelle qui servira a mesurer les autres parties de la figure; Bound with: Pesne, Jean. Livre de portraiture du Poussin. A Paris : Chez N. Langlois fils, [between 1703 and 1707] (accn. no. 2003.PR.146*); Plates 1-2 have numbering erased and have been inverted; Watermark: chaplet with cross. Publication: A Paris : Chez Audran rue St. Jacques aux 2 Pilliers dor ..., [ca. 1680]. (Moved from 1371-297 to 2003.PR.148)

Titles:

Liure pour aprendre à désigner auec les proportions des parties qui ont esté choisie dans les ouvrages de N. Poussin, (preferred,C,U,RP,undetermined-P,,)

Prints after figure studies by Nicolas Poussin (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Livre à dessiner (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: series

Work Types:

etchings (prints) [300041365] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

engravings (prints) [300041340]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

drypoints (prints) [300041349]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints, engravings (prints))

reproductive prints [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

prints (visual works) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: ca. 1680

Creator Display:

Pesne, Jean (printmaker, 1623-1700); published: Chez Audran; after Nicolas Poussin [preferred,GRISC,VP]

etcher Pesne, Jean (French painter and printmaker, 1623-1700) [500027307]

draftsman Poussin, Nicolas (French painter and draftsman, 1594-1665, active in Italy) Extent: work depicted [500005036]

publisher Audran, Gérard (French engraver and publisher, 1640-1703) [500020005]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 363591; (OCoLC)ocm79696287; accession number: 2003.PR.148*

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Other: Publication: Paris [7008038] Île-de-France (region (administrative division)), France (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Address Note: rue St. Jacques aux 2 Pilliers dor ...

Display Materials: 13 leaves of plates: engraving, etching, drypoint

	engraving (printing process) [300053225]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	drypoint (printing process) [300053228]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes, engraving (printing process))

Dimensions: 26 x 38 cm, 13 leaves

General Subject:

another work (preferred)

human figures

Specific Subjects:

	figures (representations) [300189808]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	figurative art [300056499]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in the visual arts>, art genres) (AAT)

Watermarks: chaplet with cross

Inscriptions: Liure pour aprendre à désigner auec les proportions des parties qui ont esté choisie dans les ouvrages de N. Poussin, et gravé par J. Pesne.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Liure pour aprendre à désigner auec les proportions des parties qui ont esté choisie dans les ouvrages de N. Poussin,	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 363591
Prints after figure studies by Nicolas Poussin	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
	........ Getty Research Institute Special Collections Finding Aids (2005-)
Livre à dessiner	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Robert-Dumesnil, A. P. F. Le peintre-graveur français nos. 82-94

....................... Wildenstein, G. "Les graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe siècle," Gazette des beaux-arts vol. 46, 1955, p. 339-340, nos. 223-235

Note:
English	..... [GRISC,VP]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)