L'Europe galante, ballet mise en musique
A 1697 Paris printed libretto for André Campra's opera-ballet L'Europe galante, published by Christophe Ballard for a court and theatre audience. The four pictures are horizontal decorative headpiece and tailpiece bands of black ornament on a pale ground, with scrolling acanthus leaves, arabesques, and small figures. A designer could take from them the dense interlaced scroll structure of late seventeenth-century French ornament and its way of fitting figures and foliage into a long narrow frame.
