Galerie du Palais royal : gravée d'après les tableaux des differentes ecoles qui la composent : avec un abrégé de la vie des peintres & une description historique de chaque tableau
This is a 1786 Paris engraved catalogue of paintings from the Orléans collection in the Palais-Royal, made by engraver Jacques Couché with text by abbé de Fontenai for connoisseurs and collectors. Each plate is a portrait-format print of a Dutch or Flemish painting, framed by an ornate border with a caption cartouche and a descriptive text block below. The pictures show interior genre scenes, pastoral landscapes with figures, and hunting or outdoor gatherings rendered in fine crisp line, useful for designers wanting classical engraved hatching, framed plate layouts, and 18th-century caption typography.
