La Tour : étude contenant quatre dessins gravés à l'eau-forte
A study of the pastellist Maurice Quentin de La Tour, written by the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt and published in Paris by E. Dentu in 1867. Its four etched plates reproduce La Tour's portrait drawings of faces, with the names of sitters such as Voltaire and Rousseau lettered at the upper left of several plates. The faces are shown head-on or slightly turned, built from loose shading that a designer could study for expressive portraiture.
