Recherches sur les beautés de la peinture et sur le mérite des plus celèbres peintres anciens & modernes
Recherches sur les beautés de la peinture is a 1765 Paris treatise on painting by Daniel Webb, printed by Antoine-Claude Briasson for an educated readership of art lovers and connoisseurs. Its pictures are small printers' ornaments: symmetrical floral and scrolled rosettes, starbursts and fleurs-de-lis set in rules and borders, all black on cream paper, useful for designers seeking eighteenth-century French decorative motifs and vignettes.
