Le livre d'art des femmes : peinture, sculpture
A French art book of 1877 published in Paris by A. Lemerre, written by Charles Antoine Fournier and Germain Théodule Ribot, and aimed at a general readership interested in women artists and the history of painting and sculpture. The pictures are small black-and-white ornamental engravings of symmetrical Renaissance-style cartouches, with scrolling acanthus leaves, a central mask or face, and beaded borders, which a designer could draw on for heraldic panels, headers, or decorative capitals.
