Salon illustré de 1879 : comprenant deux cents dessins originaux exécutés par les artistes d'après leurs oeuvres ...
A Paris illustrated catalogue of the 1879 Salon, published by L. Baschet and edited by F. G. Dumas, gathering about two hundred original drawings made by the exhibiting artists from their own paintings and sculptures for an art-going public. The pictures are loose pen and ink reproductions, some printed sideways, showing genre scenes of figures at work and rest, a winged creature beside a dramatic figure, and a classical relief of a seated figure being embraced; a designer might take their hatched, sketchy line and loose tonal massing as a model for quick editorial spot illustration.
