Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889
A Philadelphia and Paris publication of 1889 by William Walton, reproducing paintings shown at the Exposition universelle in Paris for an American and French audience of art lovers. The three plates include a colour print of a woman in a yellow gown beside a screen, a colour scene of a family gathered around a staircase with yellow flowers, and a monochrome reproduction of a nun in a dark habit beside a chair, showing how 19th-century academic painting was translated into reproductions with rich tonal contrast and tight figure grouping.
