Catalogue de la Galerie des tableaux
A catalogue of paintings from the Hermitage gallery in Saint Petersburg, compiled by Edmond Brüiningk and A. Somov and published there by C. Daline in 1891, a reference record for a state collection. Its plates are black-and-white halftone reproductions of Italian and Spanish old master paintings, numbered and captioned with artist names, and a designer can take from them the dense, dramatic compositions of religious scenes, with figures grouped in tight triangles of light and dark.
