3-052-733 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Illustrated handbooks to the picture exhibitions: "The Swiss Village School" by Armand Leleux, 1880. 'From the "Illustrated Catalogue of the Paris Salon," edited by P. G. Dumas...M. F. G. Dumas, founder and director of the British and Foreign Artists' Association has again brought out, as he did last year, a French catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture opened this season at the Palais of the Champs Elysées, accompanied by 320 pages entirely filled with very superior representations, facsimile copies, by a zincographic process, of the artists' own sketches, showing not merely the design and composition, but often some of the effects of light and shade, and the style of drawing in the pictures. The titles are given both in French and English, and the size of each picture, in French measurement, is precisely indicated...the total number is nearly 100...We are permitted to make use of two of the Illustrations - namely, those of Leleux's picture, "The Village School in Switzerland," and "The Grandmother," by Lhermitte, which appear in this week's Number. M. F. G. Dumas is likewise editor of Le Salon, an illustrated weekly journal of the Paris Fine-Art Exhibition, which has obtained favour in the French capital'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.