La peinture au chateau de Chantilly
A late nineteenth-century Paris catalogue of paintings held at the Musée Condé in the Château de Chantilly, compiled by art historian F.-A. Gruyer and published by Plon in 1896 for collectors and scholars. The plates are grey photogravure reproductions of Italian and Netherlandish panels, mounted on cream paper with wide margins. A designer could take from them the restrained tonal range, dignified figure grouping and architectural framing typical of early Renaissance devotional painting.
