Les Beaux-Arts : Illustration des Arts et de la Littérature
Les Beaux-Arts, an 1843 Paris art history and illustration survey by Henri Léon Curmer, published by L. Curmer for a general readership of art lovers. Its pictures are small black-and-white engravings set beside French text columns, showing a bearded older man with a hand raised to his head in a dramatic pose, with a second figure at the left edge; a designer might take the expressive gesture, the fine hatched line shading, and the compact text-and-image layout of mid-century French book pages.
