Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans
This is a Paris exhibition catalogue, the Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure of living artists, issued for the Salon's visitors under the Académie royale and the Société des artistes français. The single picture is a printer's vignette: two winged putti flank a shield-like cartouche carrying the letters I N, with the inscription 'Administration, Lois, Sciences, Arts' curving around its rim. A designer could take from it the symmetrical crest layout, with figures bracketing a central monogram.
