Gazette des beaux-arts
Gazette des beaux-arts was a French art review founded in Paris in 1859, written by critics and connoisseurs for collectors, dealers and artists, and illustrated with reproductive prints after paintings, drawings and objects in public and private collections. The plates run from finely hatched wood engravings of costume and drapery to etched figure groups, grotesque processions of beggars and jesters, and ornamental panels, offering designers period dress detail, crowd silhouettes and line textures that hold up when enlarged.
