Le Décaméron du Salon de peinture pour l'année 1881
Le Décaméron du Salon de peinture pour l'année 1881 is an 1881 Paris critical commentary on the Salon painting exhibition, written by Edmond About and published by the Librairie des bibliophiles for art-minded readers. The pictures are fine pen-and-ink headpieces and tailpieces, including a bust framed by scrolls and quills with the initials L M, and a figure study captioned as a fragment of a Nantes theatre ceiling by Berteaux. A designer might take from them the scrolling ornamental frame and the classical decorative vocabulary of the period.
