L'art flamand
L'art flamand is an 1896 art history book published in Brussels by A. Boitte, written by Jules Dujardin and illustrated by Josef Middeler, for readers interested in Flemish painters and sculptors. Its pictures are pen-and-ink reproductions of paintings and prints: a crowded civic procession with a figure on a raised dais, a tall-hatted presentation scene in a church, a crowd of skaters on canal ditches beside a walled city with arched bridges, and an allegorical group with a winged figure blowing a trumpet. A designer could take from them dense crowd staging, dramatic gesture, and the strong contrast of hatching used to build light and shadow.
