Stag and Flower Pattern Frame (bottom frame section)
1897–99
Medium
Etching and soft ground in black, yellow-brown metallic, and green-blue with plate tone, on ivory Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 10.9 × 49.8 cm (4 5/16 × 19 5/8 in.); Sheet: 15.8 × 50 cm (6 1/4 × 19 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
211067
Art Historical Context
Theodore Roussel's *Stag and Flower Pattern Frame (bottom frame section)* created between 1897 and 1899, exemplifies the late 19th-century revival of etching as a fine art medium. This intricate print, housed in the Art Institute of Chicago's Prints Drawings department, measures about 10.9 × 49.8 cm and showcases a decorative motif of a stag amid floral patterns. Roussel, a British artist influenced by James McNeill Whistler and the Aesthetic movement, specialized in elegant, tonal etchings that blurred the line between printmaking and painting. Roussel employed advanced techniques like etchi...
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, ...