Portrait of Miss Edith Austin
1895–1900
Medium
Etching and drypoint in brown-black on ivory Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 5.9 × 5.5 cm (2 3/8 × 2 3/16 in.); Plate: 14.8 × 10 cm (5 7/8 × 3 15/16 in.); Sheet: 15.7 × 10 cm (6 3/16 × 3 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
210955
About the Artist
Theodore Roussel · 1847–1926
Theodore Casimir Roussel was born on 23 March 1847 in Lorient, Brittany, France, into a naval family. After serving in the Franco-Prussian War, he began painting in 1872 as an entirely self-taught artist, initially rendering scenes of daily life in the meticulous style of the Old Masters. In 1878, he settled permanently in London, where he immersed himself in the vibrant British art scene. There, ...