Meissonier
A 1912 New York monograph by Henry Barbusse on the French painter Ernest Meissonier, issued in the Masterpieces in Colour series for art-minded general readers. The plates reproduce his small-scale genre paintings, many shown rotated on the page, with a few in monochrome. A designer might take from them his tight, finished handling of costume, interiors and light, and his habit of staging small groups of figures in period settings.
