Chelsea Children, Chelsea Embankment

Description

Here Roussel portrayed a privileged group of children in hats and pinafores, tended by a nanny. The location is Chelsea Embankment, across from a residential stretch of Cheyne Walk and not far from Albert Bridge, seen faintly in the background at left.

Chelsea Children, Chelsea Embankment

Theodore Roussel

1889

Accession Number

210937

Medium

Etching in black on cream laid paper

Dimensions

Image: 16.1 × 13.1 cm (6 3/8 × 5 3/16 in.); Plate: 19 × 13.1 cm (7 1/2 × 5 3/16 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 19.8 × 13.1 cm (7 13/16 × 5 3/16 in.)

Classification

etching

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg