Silhouettes d'artistes, avec portraits dessines par eux-memes
Silhouettes d'artistes is a Paris art-publisher's 1899 book of short biographical sketches of French artists, compiled by Frédéric Gilbert with Yveling Rambaud, for an audience interested in contemporary painters and illustrators. Its pictures are head-and-shoulders portraits drawn by the sitters themselves, in pen, pencil and wash, with loose hatching and soft backgrounds that show how artists rendered their own likenesses and offer a designer studies in quick expressive line and vignette framing.
