Réflexions joyeuses d'un garçon de bonne humeur : sur les tableaux exposés au Sallon en 1781
Réflexions joyeuses d'un garçon de bonne humeur is a satirical French pamphlet of 1781, printed under the imprint A l'Isle Sonnante and sold in Paris by the widow Vatel, offering a lighthearted commentary on paintings shown at the Salon for a readership of art-going Parisians. Its three pictures are small typographic ornaments: a tangle of acanthus-like scrolls around a central leaf, a spray of roses and buds arranged in a loose garland, and a rectangular frame holding a seated muse with an open book, a lyre and a laurel crown above ivy-trimmed scrolls, offering designers period vignettes for borders and headpieces.
