Choix de cinquante dessins de Raffaello Santi
A 1927 Paris and New York selection of fifty drawings by Raphael, published by Braun and company as a plate book of Renaissance Italian draughtsmanship for art students and scholars. The plates are sepia photographic reproductions, each captioned in French, showing studies of figures in chalk or ink. A designer could take from them the loose gestural energy of preparatory sketches, with figures overlapping, limbs repeated, and hatched shading that suggests volume without outline.
