Les 14 stations du Salon 1859 : suivies d'un récit douloureux
Les 14 stations du Salon 1859 is an art-criticism pamphlet by Zacharie Astruc, published in Paris in 1859 by Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, written about the year's Salon exhibition of French painting. The two pictures are small printed vignettes: an oval emblem with a caduceus wreathed in flowers and the motto Concordiae Fructus, and a sketchy line drawing of a figure in a pointed hat with a long-stemmed flourish. The emblem's symmetrical oval frame and ornamental lettering suit designers working on heraldic seals, labels or badges, while the loose pen figure offers a model for quick, gestural caricature.
