Metamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux
Metamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux is a 1676 French edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, with verses by Isaac de Benserade and engravings after designs by Charles Le Brun, engraved by Sébastien Le Clerc and printed at the royal press in Paris for a courtly readership. The small framed copperplate scenes show classical figures in landscapes, transformations and clouds, with ornate borders and crisp contour lines a designer could draw on for mythological or period illustration.
