Design for a Frame for the Portrait of Armand Guéraud
1862
Medium
Etching with burnishing, scraping, and foul biting, and graphite additions on grayish ivory chine, laid down on ivory board
Dimensions
Image: 14.5 × 13.2 cm (5 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 18.2 × 14.8 cm (7 3/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Primary support: 20.5 × 16 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 23 × 18.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74062
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...