Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: Ecole Espagnole
An 1877 art-history survey by Charles Blanc, the Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles, covering the Spanish school and printed for readers of French art history. The four plates are engravings after Spanish paintings: a saint distributing bread beneath a vision of the Virgin, a kneeling figure in a rocky landscape, a Presentation scene with candle-bearers, and a flagellation with armoured guards. A designer could take their dense crosshatched tonal modelling, dramatic light falling from above, and crowded compositions with strong diagonals.
