Causerie devant quelques toiles de l'école moderne en Russie
This is an 1897 Paris art-criticism booklet by Baron Joseph de Baye, discussing modern Russian painting for French readers of the Librairie Nilsson. The four plates are halftone reproductions of symbolist and history paintings, printed with captions in French and rotated on the page. Designers can take from them the heavy dark-and-light contrast of late nineteenth-century halftones, with hazy religious and battle scenes built from dense tonal masses.
