Lettres à Madame ** sur les peintures, les sculptures et les gravures, exposées dans le Sallon du Louvre en 1763
Lettres à Madame ** is an 1763 French art-criticism book by Charles-Joseph Mathon de La Cour, printed in Paris by Guillaume Desprez for a female correspondent, reviewing paintings, sculptures and prints at the Salon du Louvre. The pictures are small etched and engraved vignettes of putti: a winged cherub holding garlands, cherubs making music and reading with a sheet of music, a cherub at a writing desk beside a printed letter page, and a faint hand reaching through clouds. A designer might borrow their light linework, cloud textures and playful cupid motifs.
