Inventaire général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles; école française
This is a catalogue volume of the Louvre and Versailles French drawings inventory, compiled by Jean Guiffrey, Pierre Marcel and René Huyghe and published in Paris in 1907 for scholars and collectors. The pages are grids of numbered reproductions of French drawings, mostly pen and ink or wash studies of horsemen, battles, landscapes and biblical or mythological scenes. A designer can take compositional ideas from them: crowded figure groups, loose hatched foliage, and riders silhouetted against open sky.
