Lettre de M. Raphael le jeune, eleve des Ecoles graduites de dessin, neveu de feu M. Raphael, peintre de l'Académie de St. Luc, a un de ses amis, architecte à Rome : sur les peintures, sculptures & gravures qui sont exposées cette année au Louvre
A 1771 French letter by M. Daudet de Jossan, written as a commentary on the paintings, sculptures and engravings shown at the Louvre Salon that year, addressed to an architect friend in Rome. The three pictures are printed ornaments: a floral cartouche with a basket of flowers, a framed rococo panel with scrolls and a central shell motif, and a small sprig of flowers above a dated rule reading MDCCLXXI. A designer could take from them the compact tailpiece and vignette vocabulary of late eighteenth-century French book decoration, built from C-scrolls, foliage and bouquets set in simple borders.
