Les metamorphoses d'Ovide : en Latin et en François
Les metamorphoses d'Ovide is a bilingual Latin and French edition of Ovid's mythological poems, published in Paris in 1767 by Pissot for a cultivated French readership. Its pictures are fine French engravings: a rococo cartouche with a classical bust and lyre, a pastoral scene of reclining nymphs in a wooded landscape, and floral sprays set among the type. A designer might take the scrolling ornament, garland framing and delicate botanical sprigs as models for decorative borders.
