Profile Portrait of Charles Meryon

Provenance

Sold by Albert Roullier Art Galleries, Chicago, to Kate Buckingham (1858-1937), Chicago, May 17, 1917 [invoice ]; given to the Art Institute, 1938.

Profile Portrait of Charles Meryon

Félix Henri Bracquemond

1854

Accession Number

28032

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.)

Classification

graphite

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Clarence Buckingham Collection