Liure d'architecture d'autels et de cheminees
A 1633 Paris pattern book of architectural designs for altars and chimneypieces, engraved by Abraham Bosse after Jean Barbet and sold by the author and bookseller Tauernier for craftsmen and patrons. The plates show ornate fireplace surrounds with pediments, scrolled consoles, cherubs, caryatid-like figures and painted oval or rectangular panels, all drawn in crisp black line on pale paper. A designer could take the symmetrical framing devices, pediment profiles and putti ornament as a dense baroque vocabulary for decorative borders.
