Les beaux-arts et les arts décoratifs : l'art français rétrospectif au Trocadéro
This is an 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle catalogue of French retrospective fine and decorative arts shown at the Trocadéro, published by the Journal le Temps for a general audience of art lovers and trade visitors. Its engravings show architecture, monumental arches, a seated classical-style marble figure and an ornate candelabra-like pedestal, drawn in fine black line with dense hatching. A designer could take from them the period's ornamental vocabulary: scrolled cartouches, garlands, sculpted pilasters and classical figure poses.
