Guide dans les musees de peinture et de sculpture du Louvre et du Luxembourg
A Paris guidebook of 1856 by Théodore Pelloquet, published by Paulin et Le Chevalier, that walks visitors through the paintings and sculptures of the Louvre and Luxembourg museums. Its pages are small wood engravings, mostly rotated on the scan, showing reproductions of famous artworks: an arcaded hall with a figure lunging, a crowded battle or procession scene, a studio-like interior with a crowd, and a festive market-like gathering. A designer could take from them the dense, cluttered compositions of mid-nineteenth-century engraving and its crowd groupings.
