Ideals of life in France, or, How the great painters portray woman in French art : two hundred and twenty-five copper-plates made in Paris especially for this work by Goupil & Co., from oil-paintings and drawings : with essays on art in France
George William Sheldon's 1890 New York Appleton volume collects 225 copper-plate reproductions made in Paris by Goupil & Co. from French oil paintings and drawings of women, with essays on French art. The plates are tonal photogravure-style studies of genre scenes, portraits and figures in period costume, with soft shading and dark backgrounds a designer could draw on for period mood, costume detail and figure poses.
