Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: École Hollandaise
A nineteenth-century French art history volume by Charles Blanc, published in 1861, surveying the Dutch school of painting, with engraved reproductions of paintings drawn from Heidelberg University Library's holdings. The four plates show pastoral landscapes with riders, herders and dogs, a ruined classical courtyard with a torch-lit gathering, and an interior scene with figures beside a column and a curtain. A designer could take from them the tonal range of fine line engraving, with dense hatching for shadow, open sky and distant hills, and the staging of small figures within broad landscape.
