Observations sur les ouvrages de MM. de l'Académie de peinture et de sculpture : exposés au Sallon du Louvre, en l'année 1753, et sur quelques ecrits qui ont rapport à la peinture
A French art-criticism pamphlet by Jean-Bernard Le Blanc, published in Paris in 1753, reviewing works shown at the Salon du Louvre by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture for an audience of art readers and critics. The three pictures are small decorative ornaments, not plates from the text: a framed cartouche with a central urn and scrolls, a horizontal band of foliage with an open oval medallion, and a symmetrical rococo panel with radiating stars and C-scrolls. A designer might take from them the scroll-and-foliage vocabulary of eighteenth-century French tailpieces and headpieces for borders, dividers, or cartouche framing.
