Tableaux modernes : pastels, aquarelles, dessins; riches bijoux; mobilier artistique; objets d'art
This is a Paris auction catalogue from 1902 by Lair Dubreuil, offering modern paintings, pastels, watercolours, jewels, artistic furniture and decorative objects, drawn from the collection of Madame Valtesse de la Bigne. The pictures are halftone photographs of upholstered chairs and a painted fan, shown rotated on the page, with painted pastoral scenes set into seat backs and panels. A designer could take from them the mix of gilt wood frames, tapestry-style upholstery and small framed landscape vignettes typical of late nineteenth-century French decorative furnishings.
