Les musees d'Europe. La Belgique: Bruxelles--Anvers--Bruges--Malines--Gand;
A 1900 Paris art-museum guide by Gustave Geffroy covering the painting collections of Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Mechelen and Ghent, written for readers interested in European museums. The pictures are black-and-white halftone reproductions of Flemish and Belgian paintings: a Baroque altarpiece crowded with saints and putti, a late medieval interior with a Gothic tracery arch and robed figures, and hinged panels with architectural settings and small figures. A designer could take from them the dense compositional layering of Baroque group scenes and the Gothic arch framing used in early Netherlandish painting.
