Collection Jacques Doucet
A Paris 1912 art catalogue of the Jacques Doucet collection, printed by Imprimerie G. Petit and issued for collectors and art lovers. Its plates reproduce 18th-century French drawings and paintings in sepia halftone: an intimate interior with a seated couple by a fireplace, a rococo genre scene of figures at a table, a loose chalk study of a figure with raised arms, and a sketch of crowded figures. A designer might take their soft tonal shading, dense crosshatched chalk, and candlelit domestic staging as reference for period illustration.
