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Inventaire général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles; école française

Musée du Louvre, Guiffrey, Jean, Marcel, Pierre, 1878-, Huyghe, René, Rouchès, Gabriel, 1879-, Duclaux, Lise, Musée national de Versailles, Musée du Louvre. Cabinet des dessins, Musée d'Orsay · 1907 · Paris, Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture · 33 pictures

A 1907 catalogue of French drawings held by the Louvre and the Versailles museums, compiled by Jean Guiffrey, Pierre Marcel and René Huyghe and published in Paris for scholars and collectors of old master drawings. Its plates show pen and wash sketches of figures, classical groups, battle scenes and ceiling designs, with numbered captions beneath each drawing, offering a designer loose figure studies, drapery poses and compositional sketches in a dense, sepia-toned academic style.

Drawing · Drawing, French

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