Collection des Goncourt. Arts de l'Extrême-Orient
This is a Paris auction catalogue of 1897, published by Motteroz and issued by the Hôtel Drouot, for the sale of the Goncourt brothers' collection of Far Eastern art. The first picture is a studio portrait of an elderly man with white hair seated at a table with an open book, and the second is an engraved oval medallion pair in laurel wreaths showing the two Goncourt brothers in profile. A designer might take from them the formal seated-portrait pose against a dark backdrop, and the laurel-framed profile medallion as a compact device for paired figures.
