Gazette des beaux-arts
Gazette des beaux-arts was a French art periodical begun in Paris in 1859, written by critics and scholars for collectors, museum men and artists. Its plates reproduce Renaissance ornament prints, decorated initials, engraved friezes and drawings of vases and metalwork, giving designers line-engraved grotesques, foliate scrollwork and hatched tonal shading that scale down cleanly as small-scale borders and letters.
