Catalogue d'une collection de dessins et estampes, livres d'arts, planches gravées, quelques tableaux, etc. : dont la vente se fera le 17 juin et jours suivants, six heures de revelée, rue de Bons-Enfants, no. 30
This 1816 Paris auction catalogue, compiled by the print expert Pierre-Maurice Bénard, lists drawings, engravings, art books and paintings offered for sale in June. Its pictures are repeated impressions of a circular Timbre Royal duty stamp from the Seine department, showing a standing armoured figure with a spear, a fleur-de-lis shield and the value 5 c. A designer could take from them a compact neoclassical emblem with a ring of lettering and a central classical figure.
