Pierrot en Pied, Portrait of the Lady A. C.
Theodore Roussel
1888
- Medium
- Etching in brown with plate tone on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 20.5 × 14 cm (8 1/8 × 5 9/16 in.); Plate: 25.1 × 19 cm (9 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet, with signature tab: 25.4 × 19 cm (10 × 7 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
Around 1882 the society figure Lady Archibald Campbell commissioned Whistler to paint her portrait, and in 1884 he made an oil sketch of her performing outdoors in the role of Orlando in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Several years later, Roussel portrayed her in costume for her role in Banville’s Le baiser. Unlike The Pastoral Play, which he sketched during the performance, this print, another print and a related pastel must have been created during one or more formal sittings.
