Polychromatic ornament. One hundred plates in gold, silver, and colours, comprising upwards of two thousand specimens of the various styles of ancient, oriental, and mediæval art, and including therenaissance and the seventeenth and eigtheenth centuries (1877)
Racinet, A. (Auguste), 1825-1893 · London, H. Sotheran and Co. · leaf 61
recourse was had by the workers in wood, at that time well-educated men. When, after the summons of Richelieu and the “ discomfiture of the famous and unique Monsieur Frieze after Lepautre. le Poussin, the honour of the French in his profession, and the Raphael of our age,” as a contemporary says… … Designs for Cartouches after Lepautre. he had been early placed as an apprentice. It is true that this workshop was no other than that of Adam Philippon, who styled himself “ cabinet-maker and engineer in ordinary to the king” (towards the close of the reign of Louis XIII.), and who had been sent…
Decoration and ornament
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