Inventaire général des dessins du Musée du Louvre et du Musée de Versailles; école française
A 1907 catalogue of French drawings held by the Musée du Louvre and the Musée de Versailles, compiled by Jean Guiffrey, Pierre Marcel and René Huyghe and published in Paris by the Librairie centrale d'art et d'architecture for scholars and collectors. The pages show loose sketches of figures in graphite and chalk, with labourers bent over work, seated women, a cow, riders, and small groups of people. A designer might take from them the quick gestural shorthand of figure studies, showing how a few lines capture posture, weight and movement.
