Eli Wilner and Company Master Framers

Framing Beaux, An Essay By Mark Bockrath

Adapted from the Book by Sylvia Yount, Cecilia Beaux: American Figure Painter
Published by University of California Press (August 1, 2007)
An Essay By Mark Bockrath Pages 84-102

• Framing Beaux
• The Early Works
• The Arts and Crafts Movement
• The Rococo Revival

• Later Arts and Crafts Designs
• Glazed Paintings
• A Taste for the Antique
• Notes
• Glossary

Glossary

Bole	surface for burnishing. They are most often red, yellow, or gray, and add color to the overlying thin metal leaf.
Bolection	A type of reverse profile frame with large convex molding on its inner edge that slopes away to its outer edges.
Burnishing	The rubbing of a smooth hard stone on metal leaf to create a brilliant, mirror like surface.
Cartouche	Projecting, scroll-like ornaments, especially those found at the corners and centers of Lous XIV, Regence, and Louis XV frames; cartouches often enclose shells, flower, or other motifs.
Composition	Putty made of animal-skin glue, linseed oil, chalk, and rosin. Composition, or “compo,” is pressed into moulds and cast into decorative motifs to ornament frames.
Cyma Curve	A line that is partly convex and partly concave.
Gesso	A white coating of animal-skin glue and chalk used to coat wood and castings to provide a smooth ground for gilding or painting.
Imbrication	Overlapping like scales.
Reposes	Unornamented panels adjacent to carved or cast motifs.
Swept Edges	Curved contours in the upper edges, or rails, of a rococo frame.

Frame Nomenclature – Illustrations by the author

Parts of a frame Moldings

Profiles

Ornaments