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L'ecole de la mignature : dans laquelle on peut aisément apprendre à peindre sans maitre, ainsi que les secrets de faire les plus belles couleurs, l'or brunni et l'or en coquille ...

Boutet, Claude, Piles, Roger de, 1635-1709, Moris, Jean · 1759 · A Bruxelles : Chez J. Moris, imprimeur & libraire marché aux Trippes à la Bible · 23 pictures

A 1759 Brussels reprint of Claude Boutet's manual on miniature painting, colour recipes and gilding, printed by Jean Moris for amateur painters working without a teacher. Its illustrations are letterpress ornament: woodcut headbands of acanthus scrollwork flanking shells and urns, and tailpiece baskets with crossed laurel branches, usable as rules, dividers and small repeating borders.

Miniature painting · Painting · Colors · Flowers in art

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