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Ornemens peints dans les appartemens des Tuilleries dessinez et gravez par Berain; Paris, N. Langlois (vers 1690)

Bérain, Jean, 1640-1711 · 1888 · London, Quaritch · 16 pictures

A decorative ornament pattern book by Jean Bérain, engraved in Paris around 1690 for N. Langlois and reissued in London by Quaritch in 1888, collecting designs first painted in the Tuileries palace apartments. The pages show engraved strips, panels and borders of scrolls, acanthus foliage, masks and grotesques, with dense black-and-white linework that a designer could adapt for friezes, panels, cartouches or border treatments.

Decoration and ornament

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