The great French painters and the evolution of French painting from 1830 to the present day
A 1903 art history survey by Camille Mauclair, published in London by Duckworth, tracing French painting from 1830 to its present day and drawn from the Getty Research Institute's holdings. The plates are monochrome reproductions of paintings and prints, several printed sideways on the page, with soft tonal shading, hazy atmosphere and dark masses of foliage or figures. A designer might take from them the soft graphite-like tonality and loose, smudged modelling of late nineteenth-century French reproduction work.
