Design for a Frame for the Portrait of Armand Guéraud
1862
Medium
Etching with scraping and burnishing on grayish ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 14.4 × 13.5 cm (5 11/16 × 5 3/8 in.); Plate: 18.7 × 14.9 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 20.2 × 16.5 cm (8 × 6 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63714
About the Artist
Charles Meryon · 1821–1868
Charles Meryon, born on November 23, 1821, in Paris, was the illegitimate son of English physician Dr. Charles Lewis Meryon and dancer Pierre-Narcisse Chaspoux (stage name Narcisse Gentil) at the Paris Opéra. His half-sister Fanny, from his mother's prior relationship with Viscount Lowther, remained in contact after their mother's death in 1838. Raised partly outside Paris before attending Pension...