Exposition de portraits, peints et dessinés du XIIIe au XVIIe siècle : avril-juin 1907 : catalogue
An 1907 exhibition catalogue from the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris, published by É. Lévy, reproducing portrait drawings and paintings from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries. The four plates are black-and-white halftones of single figures, mostly men and women shown head and shoulders, in chalk or pencil with ruffs and period dress. A designer could draw on their tight head-and-shoulder framing, soft graphite shading and plain pale paper backgrounds for historical portrait compositions.
