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Profile Portrait of Charles Meryon, 1854. Drawing in graphite on ivory laid paper over plate mark stamped in paper with no etched image but with warm brown ink at plate mark and larger rectangle of lavender ink tone from a stone (?) on ivory laid paper.
Drawing in graphite on ivory laid paper over plate mark stamped in paper with no etched image but with warm brown ink at plate mark and larger rectangle of lavender ink tone from a stone (?) on ivory laid paper · Image (drawing: 13.4 × 10.6 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Profile Portrait of Charles Meryon
- Artist
- Felix Bracquemond French, 1833–1914
- Date
- 1854
- Medium
- Drawing in graphite on ivory laid paper over plate mark stamped in paper with no etched image but with warm brown ink at plate mark and larger rectangle of lavender ink tone from a stone (?) on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image (drawing: 13.4 × 10.6 cm (5 5/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Platemark (no image on plate, but ink at mark: 15 × 10 cm (5 15/16 × 3 15/16 in.); 23.6 × 15.7 cm (9 5/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 20.8 cm (10 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1833–1914
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.