L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures ...
Montfaucon's L'antiquité expliquée, published in Paris in 1719 by Florentin Delaulne, is a scholarly archaeology survey of classical antiquities, aimed at learned readers and collectors. Its engraved plates reproduce Greco-Roman reliefs and figures with clean line work, showing draped women, musicians, and columned niches that a designer could draw on for classical borders, frames, and figure poses.
