Exposition des primitifs français au Palais du Louvre (Pavillon de Marsan) et à la Bibliothèque nationale : catalogue
A 1904 Paris exposition catalogue of early French painting, compiled by Henri Bouchot and Georges Lafenestre for the Louvre and Bibliothèque nationale, printed by the Gazette des beaux-arts for its committee. Its plates reproduce medieval and early Renaissance French panels and frescoes in black and white, including a Lamentation under Gothic tracery, a painted ceiling of medallions, and a seated scholar at a desk. A designer might take from them the compositional logic of Gothic arched frames, the tiled medallion grids, and the dark, solemn modelling of portrait figures.
