Salon illustré
Salon illustré is a Paris art periodical of 1888, published by L. Baschet and tied to the Société des artistes français and Société nationale des beaux-arts, reproducing paintings from the Salon for a general French readership. Its plates are rotated halftone reproductions of single paintings, each with a caption beneath, showing genre scenes of everyday life, domestic interiors, and street and market crowds; a designer might draw on their tonal contrast, dense figure grouping, and interior perspective for compositions built on candlelit or shadowed rooms.
