Les beaux-arts décoratifs
Les beaux-arts décoratifs is a Paris publication of 1879, issued by the Gazette des Beaux-Arts to report on decorative arts shown at the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition. Its pictures are fine engraved line illustrations of objects and views: a Gothic-style reliquary carried by robed figures, a jewelled tiara ornament with a griffin-like bird, and a sketched riverside lock with a wooden footbridge. A designer might take from them the crisp hatching of metalwork and the economy of tonal line drawing.
