Le Musée national du Luxembourg
This 1907 French-language art catalogue, published in London by Cassell and in Paris by Neurdin Frères, reproduces paintings and sculptures from the national Musée du Luxembourg in Paris for an audience of art collectors and museum visitors. Its plates are black-and-white halftone reproductions, many printed sideways on the page, with artist credits and French titles in the margins. A designer might take from them the tonal range of early photomechanical reproduction, with dense blacks, grey wash and soft figure groups that suggest composition for monochrome layouts.
