Catalogue
This is a catalogue of an 1879 exhibition of the Société des aquarellistes français, printed in Paris by D. Jouaust, reproducing French watercolour paintings as line drawings for a Paris audience of collectors and art readers. The four pictures are pen-and-ink style sketches: bare winter trees and figures in one, a winged figure among flowers in another, a man climbing a tree trunk, and labourers resting by a field with haystacks and a distant village. A designer could take loose, economical linework, strong contrast of dense hatching against open paper, and naturalistic scenes of rural life.
