Les Beaux-Arts : Illustration des Arts et de la Littérature
Les Beaux-Arts is a Paris art survey published by L. Curmer in 1843 under Henri Léon Curmer, a bookseller-publisher, for an educated French readership interested in the arts and literature. Its engraved plates show a 19th-century portrait of a woman with flowers in her hair, a rocky landscape scene with a seated man and a bare-shouldered woman offering flowers, and a crowded sixteenth-century style group of armoured men in a stone arch, giving a designer models of Romantic figure poses, dramatic rock settings and dense crowd engraving.
