L'exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges
This is an 1902 Paris catalogue by Henri Hymans, published by Gazette des beaux-arts, documenting the Bruges exhibition of early Flemish painting for art historians and collectors. The reproductions are black-and-white halftone plates of altarpiece panels and devotional scenes, showing dense compositions of figures in medieval dress, architecture and sacred narrative. A designer might draw on their period costume, crowded group arrangements and Gothic arch framing for historical settings.
