Catalogue
This 1879 Paris catalogue from the Société d'aquarellistes français exhibition, printed by D. Jouaust and held by the Getty Research Institute, records French watercolour paintings for an art-viewing audience. Its plates are pen-and-ink or wash sketches: a tangled figure group, galloping riders seen at a sideways angle, a mounted pair on open ground, and a richly dressed courtier in ruffs beside an ornate balustrade. A designer might take loose, fast linework and dense hatched shadow from them, with figures that dissolve into the page.
