Les Van de Velde
Les Van de Velde is a 1892 art-history monograph by Emile Michel, published in Paris by Librairie de l'art, studying the seventeenth-century Dutch painters Adriaen and Willem van de Velde. The four plates reproduce their paintings as engravings, several printed sideways on the page. They show a wooded landscape with cattle and a figure, a sea scene with sailing ships under a cloudy sky, a pastoral meadow with herders and animals, and a camp of figures beside a tent. A designer could take from them the tonal range of grey cloud masses, dark foliage and layered horizons typical of Dutch landscape etching.
