Meissonier : huit reproductions facsimile en couleurs
A 1911 Paris publication by Henri Barbusse presenting eight colour facsimile reproductions of paintings by Ernest Meissonier, a French academic painter known for small-scale military and genre scenes. The plates are shown rotated sideways on the page, with each painting printed on a white mount. A designer could take from them the compact, tightly staged groupings of figures and the muted, dusky colour of 19th-century French painting.
