Le moyen de devenir peintre en trois heures, et d'exécuter au pinceau les ouvrages des plus grands maîtres, sans avoir appris le dessein
A 1755 Paris painting manual by F. X. Vispré, published by the Chez les Libraires associés, promising amateurs quick brushwork copies of masters' works without drawing training. The two pictures are small decorative border strips: the first a rectangular frame of stylised flowers, rosettes, and spiked foliage in bold black ink, the second a band of ruled bars, rosettes, and fine dotted panels. A designer could take from them compact repeating border motifs suited to frames, panels, and page edges.
