Explication des ouvrages de peinture et dessins, sculpture, architecture et gravure, des artistes vivans
This is a Paris exhibition catalogue of the Salon, issued by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and related Salon societies, listing paintings, drawings, sculpture, architecture and prints by living artists. The first picture is a printed floor plan of the 1884 Salon, with numbered rooms and a key, and the second is a green cover plate from the Getty Center Library bearing a small engraving of a seated figure reading a book. For a designer the plan shows how an exhibition hall was organised into numbered galleries, useful for layout and wayfinding diagrams.
