Descriptions de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, 1715-1781
This 1893 Paris volume, edited by Anatole de Montaiglon from the writings of Guérin and Dézallier d'Argenville, catalogues portraits and works of members of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture for art-history readers. Its plates are engraved portrait and genre images, each framed on a plain page with a numbered plate mark and a printed caption beneath, offering designers restrained period portraiture: oval frames, draped curtains, and formal seated sitters with worked lace and wigs.
