Chefs-d'oeuvre de l'Exposition universelle de Paris, 1889
A colour-plate album of paintings shown at the 1889 Exposition universelle in Paris, compiled by William Walton and published in Philadelphia and Paris for an audience of art collectors and readers. The first plate shows labourers and a figure in a red cap beside a stone wall and ladder, the second a red-cloaked rider galloping along a surf-edged shore, and the third a monochrome engraving of men seated around a dining table by a bright window. A designer might take from them the warm earth palette, the dramatic diagonal of the galloping rider, and the naturalistic interior lighting of the engraved scene.
