Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans
This is a Paris exhibition catalogue, the Explication des ouvrages of the Salon, listing paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture and prints by living French artists, issued under the Académie royale and later Salon societies. The one picture is a printed emblem: two winged female figures, one holding a laurel-like sprig, flank a circular medallion bearing an inscription and a monogram, all set in ornate scrolling borders. A designer could draw on its symmetrical framing, the paired winged figures and the medallion-and-scroll structure for seals, badges or heraldic-style headers.
