The Railway Bridge, Chelsea
Date1888-1889
Artist
Theodore Roussel
(French painter and printmaker, active in Great Britain, 1847–1926)
MediumEtching in black ink
Dimensionsplate: 2 11/16 × 4 5/16 in. (6.9 × 10.9 cm)
sheet: 2 15/16 × 4 5/16 in. (7.4 × 11 cm)
sheet: 2 15/16 × 4 5/16 in. (7.4 × 11 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 2015
Object number2015-67
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextBorn in Lorient, Brittany, Roussel spent almost all of his working life in England. He came late to art, taking up his career – without benefit of academic training - after his military service ended in 1872. He moved to London in 1877 meeting James McNeill Whistler in 1887 and initiating a decade-long friendship. Unlike Whistler, no gallery or dealer published Roussel’s etchings or lithographs and as a result he printed only a small number of impressions.
Wladislaw Theodore Benda
not dated
