Quelques reflexions sur les salons
A 1903 Paris art-criticism volume by Henry Cochin, published by the Gazette des Beaux-Arts and aimed at readers following the French Salons, its pictures are halftone reproductions of paintings and prints. The four pictures here show a blue-toned lithograph of a wooded river bank, a moonlit river scene with a bare tree, a painting of two seated women before a distant landscape, and a balustraded terrace with statues seen through a window. For a designer they offer muted tonal palettes, soft atmospheric light, and figure-and-landscape compositions that suit period-styled layouts.
