An early champion of Chardin, his two letters on the Paris salons, of 1747 and 1753, are a guide to enlightened contemporary taste and the defense of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, whose members had the exclusive right to exhibit at the Paris salons.His 1747 letter is published in translation in Charles Harrison, Paul Wood and Jason Gaiger, Art in Theory 1648–1815: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Blackwell) 2001:561ff.
