Les musées d'Europe. La peinture au Louvre;
A 1900 Paris guidebook by critic Gustave Geffroy, published by Librairie Nilsson, that reproduces Louvre paintings in halftone for readers of European museum collections. The four plates show a standing woman in a satin gown, a Renaissance banquet scene with richly dressed figures, a fête galante in a wooded park, and a reclining nude in an oval frame. A designer might take from them the soft, smoky tonal modelling of old-master painting and the period costume of silk, lace and brocade.
