Catalogue abrégé des tableaux anciens du Musée de Bruxelles
A 1909 abridged catalogue of old master paintings in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, compiled by curator A.-J. Wauters and published by Van Oest for museum visitors and art scholars. Its plates reproduce grave portraits of sitters in dark dress with white lace collars, genre scenes of interiors with figures at work and reading, and a mythological allegory of abundance, all in tonal black and grey. A designer can draw on the restrained monochrome palette, the starched ruffs, and the candlelit domestic interiors for period costume and mood.
