French painters of the XVIIIth century
French painters of the XVIIIth century by Lady Dilke, published in London by G. Bell and sons in 1899, is a art-history book surveying French eighteenth-century painting for general readers and students. The plates are gravure reproductions of paintings on tinted pages with printed captions: a seated woman in a flowered gown, a pastoral scene of figures in an orchard, a bust-length portrait in an oval frame, and a rustic village gathering under trees. For designers they offer period costume, soft Rococo landscape settings, and oval framing devices typical of the era.
