Inventaire général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles; école française
This is a 1907 Paris catalogue of French drawings held by the Musée du Louvre and Musée de Versailles, compiled by Guiffrey, Marcel and Huyghe for scholars and collectors. The plates are grayscale reproductions in grid layouts, each numbered by inventory, and the pictures range from loose pen sketches of figures and heads to finished wash views of interiors, vaulted halls and landscapes. A designer could take from them the quick gestural line of pen studies and the atmospheric tonal shading of wash scenes.
