About this artwork
Roussel made two separate etched studies of medallion designs for the Comedy Pattern Frame before incorporating the figural and grapevine images into the large etching plate for the frame itself.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Theodore Roussel
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Title
- Jupiter and Alcmene and Nymphs and Satyrs on a Frieze Medallion, Study for Decoration of a Frame
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Place
- England (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1907–1908
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Medium
- Etching and soft ground in black on cream laid paper
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Dimensions
- Image: 3.5 × 8 cm (1 7/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Plate: 5 × 8 cm (2 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 5.5 × 8 cm (2 3/16 × 3 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Meg and Mark Hausberg
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Reference Number
- 2011.508
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/210978/manifest.json