Les Lettres et les arts
Les Lettres et les arts is a Paris art periodical published by Boussod, Valadon et Cie in 1886, aimed at readers interested in fine arts and literature. Its plates are rotated scans of mounted black-and-white reproductions, showing crowds in a landscape, a line of figures by a rail embankment, and a curved decorative panel with a framed scene. A designer might take from them the compositional habit of placing small figures against wide open ground and the use of banded ornamental borders around pictorial inserts.
