Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: École Francaise
A nineteenth-century French art history survey by Charles Blanc, published in 1865 and held by Heidelberg University Library, aimed at readers studying the French school of painting. Its engravings reproduce eighteenth-century French compositions: elegant courtly garden gatherings, pastoral scenes with lute players, and interiors with figures in period dress. A designer might take from them the rococo vocabulary of costume, staging, and soft tonal shading.
