Henri Testelin, Examples of Proportions and Contours, 1680

This print by the then secretary to the Académie royale, Henri Testelin (1616–1695), outlines examples of the proportions and contours of a variety of antique sculptures. The print has at its centre the colossal figure of the Farnese Hercules with, at the side, a second Herculean antique sculpture, the figure of Commodus as Hercules.

Henri Testelin (1616–1695), Exemple touchant les Proportions et les Contours, from Sentimens des plus habiles peintres sur la pratique de la peinture et sculpture, mis en Tables de préceptes avec plusieurs discours académiques..., etching, 40 cm x 29 cm, 1680, edition 1696, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (ENSBA) Paris; source: gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1516423w/f31.item.r=henri%20testelin, public domain.