Art, literature & historySwift-Sailing Proa, Mulgrave Archipelago, Oceania
1866
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Medium
- Etching with scraping and burnishing in warm black ink with monogram printed à la poupée in reddish-brown ink on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 14.5 × 8 cm (5 3/4 × 3 3/16 in.); Plate: 14.5 × 8 cm (5 3/4 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 32 cm (17 3/4 × 12 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1927.4406
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
About this artwork
Swift-Sailing Proa, Mulgrave Archipelago, Oceania — Charles Meryon. 1866.
Medium: Etching with scraping and burnishing in warm black ink with monogram printed à la poupée in reddish-brown ink on ivory laid paper. Dimensions: Image: 14.5 × 8 cm (5 3/4 × 3 3/16 in.); Plate: 14.5 × 8 cm (5 3/4 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 32 cm (17 3/4 × 12 5/8 in.).
Collection record: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.