This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions), and as such we offer a high-resolution image of it. See our image rights statement.

 

This and 20 other objects are a part of a set whose first object is Album, Album of Figure Studies.

Object Timeline

1920

  • We acquired this object.

2016

2025

  • You found it!

Print, Title Page

This is a Print. It was designed by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc and published by Chez Le Pere et Avaulez and print maker: Jean-François Janinet and dedicatee: Jean Baptiste-Marie Pierre. It is dated 1773 and we acquired it in 1920. Its medium is crayon-manner with red ink on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.

This object was donated by Advisory Council. It is credited Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council.

It is signed

Inscribed in plate, lower center: A Paris chez le Pere et Avaulez rue St. Jacques à la Vielle Poste

It is inscribed

Lettered upper right, in plate: Ier Cahier. No. 1; inscribed in graphite lower right margin: 1; lettered lower center, in plate: Ier CAHIER DE PRINCIPES DE / DESSINS D’APRÈS NATURE / Faits par Le Clerc et / graves par J.F. Janinet / 1773 / DÉDIÉ à Monsr. J.B. Marie Pierre / Ier Peintre du Roy / Par son tres humble serviteur Le Clerc; lettered upper center, in plate: L’Oeil entierement de face doit se diviser en trois parties / egales, comme il est marqué à la figure ci a / côté, et pour donner une proportion juste de son / ouverture dans cette situation, nous la ferons/ d’une des susdites parties, en observant de pro-/longer cette ouverture de la même grandeur / du côté du nez, et de la diminuer au contraire/ en allant vers les Tempes: le sourcil doit suivre/ la même direction, et sa distance du côté du nez/ doit être d’une partie ½ en observant de la gar-/nir davantage à cet endroit que l’en nomme / tête du sourcil.; lettered center, in plate: L’Oeil de profil doit avoir un epartie et ½ comme il / est marqué cy dessus, et l’ouverture est la même que/ celle de l’Oeil de face.

Cite this object as

Print, Title Page; Designed by Pierre Thomas Le Clerc (French, ca. 1740 - ca. 1796); Print Maker: Jean-François Janinet (French, 1752 - 1814); Published by Chez Le Pere et Avaulez; Dedicatee: Jean Baptiste-Marie Pierre (French, 1714 – 1789); France; crayon-manner with red ink on laid paper; Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council; 1921-6-437-1

This image is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. For more information, visit the Smithsonian’s Terms of Use page.

If you would like to cite this object in a Wikipedia article please use the following template:

<ref name=CH>{{cite web |url=https://www-4.collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18281237/ |title=Print, Title Page |author=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |accessdate=7 February 2025 |publisher=Smithsonian Institution}}</ref>