Stag and Flower Pattern Frame (top frame section)

Description

To display a set of nine color etchings, first exhibited in 1899, Roussel created two etched frame designs to cover wide wood moldings. The Stag and Flower Pattern Frame has an eclectic combination of design elements, while the Lotus Pattern Frame incorporates Egyptian motifs. The two etched frame designs were printed in distinct color combinations to complement specific color prints. The Stag and Flower frame segments are related to—but not the same as—two of those color variants.

Stag and Flower Pattern Frame (top frame section)

Theodore Roussel

1897–99

Accession Number

228826

Medium

Etching and soft ground in yellow-brown metallic and black on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image, trimmed within platemark: 10.9 × 47.4 cm (4 5/16 × 18 11/16 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 12.2 × 47.4 cm (4 13/16 × 18 11/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg