Exposition d'uvres d'art du XVIIIe siècle à la Bibliothèque nationale : catalogue : miniatures, gouaches, estampes en couleurs françaises et anglaises 1750-1815, médailles et pierres gravées 1700-1800, biscuits de Sèveres
This 1906 Paris exhibition catalogue, compiled by Henri Bouchot and Henri de La Tour for the Bibliothèque nationale, records eighteenth-century French and English portrait miniatures, gouaches, and colour prints. The four pictures show round portrait miniatures of women with powdered or curled hair, set in carved or beaded metal and wood frames, with soft grey-green tonal painting. A designer might take from them the oval-and-circle framing, the pale muslin fichu draping, and the pearl-bead and laurel border ornament of the period.
