Dissertation Sur Les Attributs De Vénus: Qui a obtenu l'Accessit, au jugement de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions & Belles-Lettres, à la Séance publique du mois de novembre 1775
A French prize dissertation by Géraud de La Chau, published in 1776, on the attributes of Venus, submitted to the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres in Paris for its public session of November 1775. Its engravings reproduce ancient statues and gems of the goddess, each set in an oval frame, and suit a designer seeking classical antiquarian ornament: the oval cartouche, garland and diamond-lattice borders, and the sparse hatched line of eighteenth-century antiquarian engraving.
