Inventaire général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles; école française
A 1907 Paris inventory of French drawings held by the Louvre and Versailles, compiled by Guiffrey, Marcel and Huyghe for scholars and collectors of French art. The plates are grey halftone reproductions of sheets arranged in numbered groups, showing religious scenes, mythological figures, pastoral landscapes, portraits and decorative roundels in pen, wash and chalk. A designer might take compositional ideas from the crowded multi-figure groupings, the vignette layouts, and the tonal range of wash drawing.
