Oeuvres d'Etienne M. Falconet Statuaire: contenant plusieurs écrits relatifs aux beaux arts, dont quelques-uns ont déjà paru, mais fautifs ; d'autres sont nouveaux
A collected edition of writings on the fine arts by the sculptor Etienne Falconet, published in Paris in 1781 and drawn from his essays, some previously printed and some new. The four pictures are small decorative vignettes of the kind printed as headpieces and tailpieces, built from rococo scrollwork, flowers, and a small seated figure beside an oval cartouche. A designer could take from them the vocabulary of eighteenth-century French ornament: asymmetrical C-scrolls, acanthus-like foliage, and the framing of a motif within a shell or oval.
