Bastien-Lepage, sa vie et ses oeuvres, 1848-1884 / étude par L. de Fourcaud ; publié sous la directionde F.-G. Dumas
A French monograph of 1885 by L. de Fourcaud on the painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884), issued in the Galerie des artistes modernes series for an art-loving readership. Its photogravure plates reproduce rustic genre scenes of peasant labour and domestic life, several printed sideways on the page; a designer can take from them the soft, tonal naturalism of plein-air figure painting, with its muted greys, dappled grass and quiet interiors.
