Lettre à un amateur de la peinture avec des eclaircissements historiques sur un cabinet et les auteurs des tableaux qui le composent : ouvrage entremêlé de digressions sur la vie de plusieurs peintres modernes
A 1755 Dresden treatise on painting and painters by the collector and connoisseur Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn, printed by Georg Conrad Walther for art amateurs and picture collectors, with plates after Franz Christoph Janneck engraved in part by Pierre Hutin. The illustrations are small rococo woodcut vignettes and headpieces in which putti read, write and lean on stacked books inside asymmetrical shell and acanthus cartouches, usable as spot ornaments, chapter heads and frames.
