Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889
This is a large-format 1889 album of paintings and prints from the Exposition universelle in Paris, compiled by William Walton and published in Philadelphia and Paris for collectors and art-lovers. The four plates show a prehistoric cave-dwelling scene, a framed Renaissance-style interior with reclining figures, a seated figure in a throne room flanked by lions, and harvest labourers in a wheat field, with the varied tonal and compositional treatments of late nineteenth-century academic painting offering designers examples of historical staging and rural genre composition.
