Explications des gravures au trait de quelques tableaux de P.-L. de Laval, peintre d'histoire : precedees d'observations sur les arts en generale et sur leur etat en France (1842)
This is an 1858 Paris edition from Le Normant of line-engraved plates after history paintings by P.-L. de Laval, explained in French with prefatory remarks on the arts in France and compiled by C. A. de Laval. The engravings are pale, precise outline prints of classical and medieval narrative scenes with figures in tight groupings, useful to a designer studying 19th-century academic composition, costume and gesture drawn with restrained contour line rather than shading.
