Relation de la feste de Versailles du dix-huitième juillet mil six cens soixante-huit
A 1668 festival account by André Félibien, published in Paris by Pierre Le Petit, describing the royal fête at Versailles for Louis XIV and celebrating the court's entertainments. The two pictures are decorative engraved ornaments rather than scenes: a symmetrical floral and foliate cartouche with a grotesque mask at its base, and a frieze of scrolling acanthus with putti flanking a shield of fleurs-de-lis. A designer could draw on their dense, mirrored scrollwork and classical strapwork for borders, title panels, or heraldic motifs.
