Catalogue d'une collection précieuse de tableaux des trois écoles, appartenans au C.en La Fontaine, artiste et négociant : dont la vente se fera publiquement aux plus offrans & derniers enchérisseurs ... le duodi 22 frimaire an VII, & jours suivans, de relevée, & au comptant : en la grande salle de la maison de Bullion, rue J.J. Rousseau ..
This 1798 Paris auction catalogue, prepared by the huissier-priseur Louis François Jacques Boileau with the painters Alexandre Joseph Paillet and Pierre Joseph Lafontaine, offers a collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings to buyers at public sale in the Revolutionary year VII. The small engraved vignette above the title shows a studio interior with a painter at an easel and a seated figure at a table, with a cherub-like figure and framed pictures on the walls. A designer might borrow its oval cartouche frame and its tidy, classical title-page typography.
