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Description historique des château, bourg et forest de Fontainebleau : contentant une explication historique des peintures, tableaux, reliefs, statuës, ornemens qui s'y voyent, & la vie des architectes, peintres & sculpteurs qui y ont travaillé ...

Guilbert, Pierre, 1697-1759, Scotin, Jean-Baptiste, 1678- · 1731 · A Paris : Chez André Cailleau ... · 14 pictures

A 1731 Paris guidebook by Pierre Guilbert, published by André Cailleau, describing the palace, town and forest of Fontainebleau and the paintings, reliefs, statues and ornaments there, with biographies of the artists who worked on them. The pictures are small black-and-white ornamental engravings: cartouche-framed strapwork panels, a central scrolled medallion holding a flower basket, and horizontal bands of acanthus scrolls, urns and blossoms, offering a designer historical French Rococo and baroque decorative motifs for borders and headers.

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