Musée des monumens français: ou Description historique et chronologique des statues en marbre et en bronze, bas-reliefs et tombeaux des hommes et des femmes célèbres, pour servir à l'histoire de France et à celle de l'art
Alexandre Lenoir's Musée des monumens français (1800) is a Paris-published catalogue of French royal and noble tomb sculptures, statues and bas-reliefs, drawn as engraved plates for readers of French history and art. The plates show tomb effigies, standing statues on pedestals, and relief panels with figures in long robes, set in framed rectangles with numbered captions. A designer might take from them the stiff, ordered layout of early nineteenth-century antiquarian plates and the carved drapery of medieval effigies.
