Les dessins de maîtres anciens : exposés a l'École des beaux-arts en 1879
A late nineteenth-century Paris publication by Philippe de Chennevières and the École des beaux-arts, issued by the Gazette des beaux-arts in 1880 to record an exhibition of old master drawings for a French art-trained readership. Its plates reproduce sketches and studies of figures, including a seated woman in a cloak, a mother with a child under a wide hat, and rough groups of walking figures in wash and pen. A designer might draw on their loose, economical line and soft tonal shading for figure studies.
