Catalogue de tableaux et dessins : œuvres importantes de Toulouse-Lautrec; dessins originaux de Steinlen; pour l'illustration des œuvres de Aristide Bruant
This 1905 sale catalogue from Paris, issued by Pairault & Co. for the Hôtel Drouot auction house, offers original drawings by Steinlen and Toulouse-Lautrec for illustrating Aristide Bruant's songs to collectors and dealers. The pictures are black-and-white pen and ink line work: a cloaked figure beside a song score, a top-hatted man before a cabaret sign, a lone street figure under a dark sky, and a Renaissance-style ornamental border with putti. A designer might take the economical contour line, the sheet-music insets, and the mix of street scenes with decorative framing.
