Galerie de l'Ermitage : gravee au trait d'apres les plus beaux tableaux qui la composent : avec la description historique
A line-engraved plate book published in St. Petersburg in 1805 by F. I. Labenskii and Camille de Geneve, reproducing paintings from the Hermitage collection with historical descriptions for a general audience of art lovers. The plates show Renaissance and Baroque figure compositions rendered in fine outline, several turned sideways on the page; a designer could take from them the economy of contour line, draped classical robes, and clustered group poses that suggest sacred or domestic narratives.
