‎(BOUTET, Claude).‎
‎L'Ecole de la Mignature (sic), Dans laquelle on peut aifment apprendre peindre sans Maitre, ainsi que les secrets de faire les plus belles couleurs; l'Or Bruni, & l'Or en Coquille. Avec la Methode pour Etudier l'Art de la Peinture tant Fresque, en Detrempe, & l'Huile, que sur le Verre, en Email, Mosaque & Damasquinuere: l'Eclaircissement sur l'utilis des Estampes: l'Instruction pour la connoissance des Tableaux: Les Sentimens sur la Peinture & sur les differens Gots des Nation, & un Dictionaire des Termes les plus usitz dans l'Art. Recueil fait par M. Pil & autres. Nouvelle Edition, Augmente.‎

‎Bruxelles, J. Moris, 1759. vi, 283, [xiii] pp. Small 8vo (10,5 x 16,5 cm.). Bound in 19th century half olive morocco, spine divided into 5 compartments with 7 quadruple gilt rulers, gilt lettered; 4 blind tooled floral ornaments in 4 compartments; marbled end papers (partly some very slight rubbing). Title printed in red and black. With some wood-engraved headers, and one engraved figure of a pantograph.‎

Reference : 1782

‎ This very popular and outstanding treatise on miniature painting with ample attention for flower painting. It went, at least, through 11 editions. The first (1672) & the second (1674) were entitles "Trait de la Mignature". From the "nouvelle dition, first published at Lyon in 1679, the title has changed into "Elole de la Mignature. The present edition is the only one published at Brussels, the last edition was published in 1817 in Paris. A very good copy. Barbier II, 15 (in the 2nd edition of Barbier, the work was attributed to Christophe Ballard).‎