Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans
This is a Paris exhibition catalogue of the Salon, listing paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture and prints by living French artists, published in 1673 for visitors to the Académie royale exhibitions. The single picture is a small engraved emblem: two winged putti flank a circular medallion bearing the letters IN and lettering around its rim, set above a draped and tasselled ornamental base. A designer might take from it the symmetrical, allegorical cartouche format, with paired figures holding a central seal-like roundel.
