Le triomphe de l'amour, ballet royal
A 1681 Paris printed score of Lully's ballet royal Le triomphe de l'amour, published by Christophe Ballard for the court and opera-going public. Its pictures are black-and-white woodcut and engraved decorations: a strip with the word VIRTUS and a cartouche of figures, a floral border, a large initial S filled with grotesque figures and scrollwork, and an allegorical frontispiece of Fortune, lovers, and putti in an oval frame, offering designers dense ornamental borders, cartouches and framing devices.
