Le Musée national du Luxembourg : catalogue raisonné et illustré des peintures, sculptures, dessins, gravures en médailles et sur pierres fines, et objets d'art divers des écoles contemporaines
A late nineteenth-century French museum catalogue, compiled by Léonce Bénédite for the Musée national du Luxembourg in Paris and published in 1898, documenting contemporary paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints for scholars and collectors. The plates reproduce a profile head drawn in soft graphite, a winged figure grappling with a nude youth on a cliff, a Gustave Moreau style scene of a robed musician beside a rocky landscape, and a marble seated nude titled Eve after the Fall. A designer might take the classical poses, the gestural shading, and the tonal range of the halftone reproductions.
