Untitled Drawing for Frame Cartouche (Salamander)
Theodore Roussel
1899–1908
- Medium
- Brush and black ink, gold metallic ink, and watercolor on semi-transparent tan wove paper
- Dimensions
- 8.3 × 17 cm (3 5/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
- Genre
- watercolor
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
prints and drawingwatercolorpaperpaper (fiber product)
About
Roussel created two variant emblems for the blank cartouche at top center—a cluster of silhouetted flowers resembling anemones, in black, and this salamander before a rising sun, rendered in colors that include metallic pigment.
