Design for a Frame for the Portrait of Armand Guéraud
1862
Medium
Etching in warm black with some printing à la poupée in copper ink, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 16.6 × 13.1 cm (6 9/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Plate: 17 × 13.6 cm (6 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.); Sheet: 37.1 × 30.2 cm (14 5/8 × 11 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63716
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...