Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'œuvre
This is a 1900 Philadelphia publication by William Walton reproducing works from the Exposition universelle in Paris, aimed at readers interested in exhibited art. The four plates show a rotated interior genre scene of seated figures on a staircase, a close study of a woman and an elderly woman seated in a church pew, a long decorative panel of a reclining woman with flowing drapery and sinuous hair, and a standing robed ecclesiastical figure holding a cross and book. A designer could take from them the strong contrast of dark and pale tones, the flowing linework of the decorative panel, and the formal full-length portrait pose.
