The history of modern painting
A late nineteenth-century illustrated survey of modern painting, written by Richard Muther with later translation and editing, published in London in 1895 for art students and general readers. Its pictures are halftone reproductions of paintings, showing crowds of villagers outdoors, a street scene of women and children on steps, a seated woman in a flowing gown, and a bearded man with a girl leaning on him, with soft tonal shading a designer could study for figure grouping and dark-ground portrait lighting.
