Easel

(ez'l.) [Ger. esel, an a .) (Paint.) An apparatus constructed of wood, upon which the panel or canvas is placed while a picture is being painted(Fig. 288.) Fig. 288. AN ARTIST OF THE 15TH CENT. AT WORK AT HIS EASEL. (From an illumination in a MS. of the Romance of the Rose.) د An Easel-picture is a picture of small dimensions, such as render it portable. [s. 313]