Catalogue d'une collection nombreuse de tableaux de maitres d'Italie, des Pays-Bas et de France : pastels, emaux, miniatures, gouaches, dessins, estampes, recueils, ivoires, tabatières, meuble ... : qui compsaient le cabinet de feu M. Richard de Lédan
A Paris auction catalogue of 1816 compiled by François Léandre Regnault-Delalande for the sale of the cabinet of the late M. Richard de Lédan, listing Italian, Netherlandish and French paintings, pastels, enamels, miniatures, drawings, prints, ivories and snuff boxes. The pictures are the same small circular dry-stamp impression repeated three times, showing a hanged figure suspended from a gallows beside a shield with fleurs-de-lis, with the lettering SEINE, ROYAL and TIMBRE around the rim. A designer might take from them the crisp circular seal layout with curved lettering and the stark emblematic figure of an official government stamp.
