Catalogue des tableaux anciens et modernes ... : objets d'art et d'ameublement, faïences, porcelaines, biscuits ... meubles & sièges anciens et de style ... le tout dépendant de la succession de Édouard Detaille, et dont la vente aux enchères publiques, apres décès, aura lieu à Paris, Hôtel Drouot ... les lundi 10 et mardi 11 mars 1913 ...
This is an auction sale catalogue issued by the Hôtel Drouot in Paris in 1913, listing paintings, decorative objects, ceramics and furniture from the estate of the painter Édouard Detaille. The pictures are photographic plates of tapestries printed on cream paper, each framed by a dense border of foliage, figures and grotesque ornament. A designer might take from them the complex interlaced borders and the staging of crowded narrative scenes with armoured figures set against open landscapes.
