Exposition de portraits peints et dessinés du XIIIe au XVIIe siècle : avril-juin 1907 : catalogue
This 1907 exhibition catalogue from the Bibliothèque nationale, edited by Henry Marcel and published in Paris by the Librairie centrale des beaux-arts, reproduces French portraits in chalk, pencil and paint from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries. The plates show close head-and-shoulder studies of women in period headdresses, ruffs and lace collars, drawn in soft graphite and chalk with fine tonal shading. A designer could draw on their restrained monochrome modelling, rendered hair volume and fine lace texture for historical portrait work.
