Le Musée de Lyon : les peintures
A 1912 Paris catalogue of paintings from the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, written by Paul Dissard and published by H. Laurens for art students and collectors. Its plates reproduce old master and nineteenth-century canvases in halftone, several printed sideways on the page. Designers can take from them the dense crowd compositions, dramatic candlelit interiors and dark tonal contrasts of academic history painting.
