Jehan Cousin the younger
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, France
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around 1522, the son of the famous painter and sculptor Jean Cousin the Elder
Jean Cousin the Elder
Jean Cousin was a French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician. He is known as "Jean Cousin the Elder" to distinguish him from his son Jean Cousin the Younger, also an artist.-Career:...
ca. 1490–ca. 1560) who was often compared to his noted contemporary, Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since...
. Having trained to become an artist under his father, Jehan le jeune showed as much talent as his father, and their work is nearly indistinguishable even to the expert. Just before his death, Jehan the elder published his noted work Livre de Perspective in 1560 in which he noted that his son would soon be publishing a companion entitled, Livre de Pourtraicture.
While there have been some reports that an edition of Livre de Pourtraicture was first printed in 1571 and again in 1589, no copies appear to exist. Instead, the most likely first printing of the work was 1595 in Paris
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by David Leclerc, with woodcut
Woodcut
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s engraved by Jean Leclerc
Jean Leclerc
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, just after Jehan le jeune's death. The book is one of the most famous on the subject of artistic anatomy and was printed again and again into the late 17th century.
Source
- Adapted from public domain text at Jehan Cousin le jeune Biography. Historical Anatomies on the Web. US National Library of Medicine.
External links
- Historical Anatomies on the Web. US National Library of Medicine. Selected pages scanned from the original work, his Livre de pourtraiture (Paris: Jean Leclerc, 1608).