Les Beaux-Arts : Illustration des Arts et de la Littérature

Curmer, L. (Henri Léon), 1801-1870 · 1843 · Paris : L. Curmer · 4 pictures

Les Beaux-Arts is a mid-nineteenth-century French illustrated survey of the fine arts and literature, published by L. Curmer in Paris in 1843 for a general cultured readership. Its engraved plates reproduce paintings with a restrained, tonal black-and-white finish, and a designer might take from them its dense, atmospheric tonal modelling of interiors, groups and foliage, along with the period's formal theatrical staging of figures.

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