[Tableaux; dessins; estampes; sculptures.]

F. C. Joullain, Paris, Me. Boileau, Paris, Me. Chariot, Paris · 1773 · Paris · 4 pictures

A French auction catalogue of paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures issued in Paris in 1773, with printers and sellers named as F. C. Joullain, Me. Boileau and Me. Chariot, and marked with the owner's name M. Lempereur. Its pictures are small printed ornaments set among the text, including cartouches, scrolled frames and a vase with foliage, each built from acanthus scrolls, leaves, flowers and fleurs-de-lis in a restrained eighteenth-century style. A designer could borrow their symmetrical cartouche structures and scroll-and-leaf vocabulary for decorative borders, labels or monogram frames.

[M. Lempereur]

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