L'oeuvre de P. P. Rubens; histoire et description de ses tableaux et dessins
A scholarly 1886 catalogue of Peter Paul Rubens's paintings and drawings, compiled by Max Rooses and published in Antwerp, aimed at art historians and collectors. The plates are rotated black-and-white reproductions of Rubens's compositions and their engraved versions, each captioned in French, and show crowded baroque scenes of feasting, hunting, a kermis and a Habsburg legend; a designer might take their dense multi-figure groupings, dramatic diagonals and tonal contrasts as compositional study.
