Le Musée des beaux arts de Gand : notice historique
A 1922 historical guide to the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium, written by art historian Joseph Casier for visitors and collectors of Flemish and European painting. Its plates are halftone reproductions of museum paintings: a tavern-style interior with figures gathered at a table, a crowd of dark-coated figures in the street, and two head-and-shoulders portraits of a man with a moustache and a woman in profile. A designer could take from them the dim, low-key tonal range and the dark-clothed group compositions of Flemish genre painting.
