Prudhon : étude contenant quatre dessins gravés à l'eau-forte
A monograph on the painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, written by the brothers Edmond and Jules de Goncourt and published in Paris by E. Dentu in 1861, with four etchings added as plates. The pictures are a decorative initial letter with dense dotted ground and scrolling foliage, a symmetrical ornamental panel of curling leaves, and a loosely hatched etched portrait of a young woman with dark curly hair. A designer might take from them the contrast between crisp black-and-white ornament and the sketchy, tonal handling of the etched portrait.
