Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889
A photogravure-style plate from a Paris 1889 Exposition universelle masterpieces volume, edited by William Walton and published in Philadelphia and Paris for collectors of contemporary art. The plate shows a painting of mounted riders fording a shallow tidal beach under a heavy, pale sky, with soft wet sand reflecting light. A designer could take its muted grey-blue and ochre palette and its diagonal procession of horses across the frame as a study in calm, weathered landscape composition.
