Art Institute of Chicago

Standing Figure in a Chinese Gown

Theodore Roussel

Date

1890–94

Medium

Lithographic crayon on fine-grained transfer paper

Culture

England

Department

Prints and Drawings

Institution

Art Institute of Chicago

In contrast to lithographs made directly on lithographic stones, images for transfer are drawn in lithographic crayon on paper that is specifically coated to allow the drawings to be transferred to stones for professional printing. Around 1890 James McNeill Whistler encouraged Roussel to take up the technique, and the younger artist created a small number of transfer lithographs with the assistance of Whistler’s printers, Thomas and Thomas Robert Way. The Ways also provided the specially prepared paper.

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