2-750-523 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Design with faux marbling, Paris, France, (1928). '1864...Design for decorative painting (imitation of a marble, spar and malachite wall-facing)...Presumably by Eugene Berthelon, born in Paris, 1829; exhibited there as late as 1908'. After a lithograph. Plate CXX, fig 225, from "An Encyclopaedia of Colour Decoration from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the XIXth Century" with explanatory text by Helmuth Bossert. [Ernst Wasmuth Ltd., Berlin, 1928]