Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889
A colour-plate volume published in Philadelphia and Paris in 1889, gathering reproductions of paintings shown at the Paris Exposition Universelle for an American and French audience of art buyers and collectors. The four plates are mounted on cream sheets with wide margins, and they show a boat of white-robed figures on a misty harbour, a nude bathing scene in a grotto, a classical figure beside a stone shrine under trees, and a dramatic mounted battle. A designer might take the soft atmospheric colour, the misty light, and the wide-margin plate layout as a reference for period painting palettes.
