Architecture depicted in a painting is very often a cue for designing the architecture of the frame. We just framed this ca. 1900 unsigned impressionist painting of a Paris street scene for California Historical Design. The painting is 9-3/8″ x 13-7/8″. I wanted the frame to be simple and plain to suit the loose painting style, but to acknowledge the baroque building. The frame is in a 2-1/2″ wide flat profile with a raised sight edge carved in a simplified baroque pattern. We made it in quartersawn white oak with Light Medieval stain, and with a 1/8″ wide pale gold slip.
