Objets d'art Japonais et Chinois peintures, estampes : composant la collection des Goncourt
A bound auction catalogue published in Paris in 1897 by the Hôtel Drouot, listing Japanese and Chinese paintings and prints from the Goncourt collection, with Charles Lang Freer named as a former owner. The single picture is a dim, grainy photograph of a seated man in a dark jacket and waistcoat, one hand resting on an open album or book on a table. The image offers a designer tonal contrast, soft shadow and a close crop of hands on paper, useful for mood references about collecting and connoisseurship.
