Design for a Frame for the Portrait of Armand Guéraud

1862

Dating: Exact year
Held at: Art Institute of Chicago
Medium: Etching with burnishing, scraping, and foul biting, and graphite additions on grayish ivory chine, laid down on ivory board
Dimensions: Image: 14.5 × 13.2 cm (5 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 18.2 × 14.8 cm (7 3/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Primary support: 20.5 × 16 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 23 × 18.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/16 in.)
Collection no.: 1917.761
Attribution: By the artist

About this artwork

Design for a Frame for the Portrait of Armand Guéraud — Charles Meryon. 1862.

Medium: Etching with burnishing, scraping, and foul biting, and graphite additions on grayish ivory chine, laid down on ivory board. Dimensions: Image: 14.5 × 13.2 cm (5 3/4 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 18.2 × 14.8 cm (7 3/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Primary support: 20.5 × 16 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 23 × 18.8 cm (9 1/16 × 7 7/16 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.

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