Le philotechne français, ou, Recueil d'éloges, de critiques et d'anecdotes remarquables, sur les artistes qui sont distingués dans ce siécle / par Mr. B***y
Le philotechne français is an 1766 French collection of praise, criticism and anecdotes about eighteenth-century French artists, compiled by Louis Boily and published in The Hague and Paris by Durand. Its plates are fine etchings and engravings: a donkey seen from behind in loose hatched lines, a classical allegory of a nude woman rising above seated figures and putti in a decorative frame, and a tailpiece of scrolls, rosettes and a tasselled sunburst that a designer could adapt for ornament borders.
