Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans
An exhibition catalogue issued by the Paris Salon, the French academy-linked showcase of living artists, with its record dated 1673 though the printed Salon catalogues belong to a later period. The single picture is a plan of a palace courtyard layout, labelled Cour d'Honneur and Cour d'Entrée, drawn as a ground plan with formal wings, gardens and a gallery. A designer might take from it the crisp hatched line work and the clear labelling of architectural floor plans for diagrams or wayfinding.
