Painting estimate for a hall: cornices, scenes and colours
Costs in lire and working days for eaves, painted scenes with pilasters, and pigments
A written estimate, in pen, costing the decoration of a hall in lire and working days. The narrow cornice above the hall is priced at 30 lire and the panels of the cornice below at 7 lire each, plus 3 lire for pigments—blue, gold, white lead, gypsum, indigo and glue—and three days' work. The narrative scenes beneath the cornices, with their pilasters, are reckoned at 12 lire each, with a further estimate for smalt, blue, gold and other colours and five days for designing the composition. A library stamp of the Institut de France sits at the centre of the leaf.
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Cornices priced by panel, with pigments and days
The narrow cornice above the hall is set at 30 lire. The cornice below is estimated at 7 lire per panel, plus 3 lire for blue, gold, white lead, gypsum, indigo and glue, and three working days.
Narrative scenes with pilasters and colours
The 'storie' (narrative scenes) beneath the cornices, with their pilasters, are reckoned at 12 lire each. A further 1½ lire is estimated for smalt, blue, gold and other colours, with five days for working out the composition and the small pilaster.