Œuvres Complètes D'Antoine-Raphaël Mengs: Premier Peintre Du Roi D'Espagne, &c. Contenant différens Traités sur la théorie de la Peinture. Traduit de l'Italien
This is a French-language 1786 edition of the collected works of painter Anton Raphael Mengs, printed in Paris for readers of art theory, with translation by Azara from the Italian. The pictures are black-and-white woodcut-style decorative frames and panels of scrolling acanthus, flower bouquets tied with ribbon, and putti with urns, showing ornamental borders a designer could adapt for cartouches and headers.












