La vie des peintres flamands, allemands et hollandois : avec des portraits gravés en taille-douche, une indication de leurs principaux ouvrages, & des réflexions sur leurs différentes manieres
Jean-Baptiste Descamps's four-volume biographical dictionary of Flemish, German and Dutch painters, published in Paris by Charles-Antoine Jombert from 1753 with copperplate portraits engraved by Etienne Ficquet and others, addressed to collectors, amateurs and painters. The plates pair oval engraved portrait busts set into cartouches with reclining allegorical figures and drapery against ruled backgrounds, alongside woodcut initial letters filled with acanthus scrollwork and small flowers.
