La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois: avec des portraits ...
A French art-historical biography volume by Jean Baptiste Descamps, published in 1760, collecting lives of Flemish, German and Dutch painters for an educated readership of collectors and connoisseurs. Each engraved frontispiece pairs an oval portrait medallion with an architectural frame, with allegorical figures, palette, brushes and easels arranged on either side of a French caption and italic text block. A designer might take the symmetrical cartouche layouts, the oval medallion framing, and the classical garlands and draped putti as models for period title pages.
