Untitled Drawing for Frame Cartouche (Salamander)

Description

Roussel created two variant emblems for the blank cartouche at top center—a cluster of silhouetted flowers resembling anemones, in black, and this salamander before a rising sun, rendered in colors that include metallic pigment.

Untitled Drawing for Frame Cartouche (Salamander)

Theodore Roussel

1899/1908

Accession Number

214315

Medium

Brush and black ink, gold metallic ink, and watercolor on semi-transparent tan wove paper

Dimensions

8.3 × 17 cm (3 5/16 × 6 3/4 in.)

Classification

watercolor

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg