Collection des livrets des anciennes expositions depuis 1673 jusqu'en 1800
A French catalogue collection of exhibition booklets from the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, compiled by Jules Guiffrey and published in Paris in 1869, covering salons from 1673 to 1800 for art scholars and collectors. The pictures are small black-and-white ornamental headpieces and tailpieces: scrolling acanthus leaves, shell motifs, cartouches, and a crowned royal shield with fleurs-de-lis. A designer might borrow their scrolls, symmetrical cartouche framing, and Louis XV-era rococo ornament.
