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RUBENS, P.P.

Theorie de la figure humaine, considérée dans ses principes, soit en repos ou en mouvement
Paris
C.A. Jombert
1773
€400 - €600

4°, 58 pp, portrait de Rubens, vignette sur le titre, 44 gravures par Pierre Aveline d'après Rubens, demi veau à nerfs dans le style d'époque.

Joint:
Reprint du même ouvrage (1990) avec préface.
+ N. Laneyrie-Dagen - 'Théorie de la figure humaine'. Paris, 2003. 4°, 228 pp, cart. d'éditeur. (3)

First edition of this translation of Rubens' unpublished manuscript 'Super Figura Humana Discursus Cabbalisticus', left in the artist's studio following his death in 1640. Jombert's version, long thought to be misleading due to its inaccurate editing and incorporation of images taken from Leonardo, has recently been re-examined and vindicated as an important and unjustly overlooked source for the aesthetic and philosophical opinions of the artist. See: Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen, editor, Theorie de la Figure Humaine, Pierre Paul Rubens, Planches gravées par Pierre Aveline d'après Rubens, Paris, 2003; Brunet, IV 144; Cicognara 353; Cohen-De Ricci 915-16.

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