Bain-froid chevrier, dit "de l'École" (Chevrier's Cold-Bath Establishment, Sometimes called the "School-Baths"), 1864

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 12 × 13.6 cm (4 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.)
plate: 13.1 × 14.3 cm (5 3/16 × 5 5/8 in.)

sheet: 34.3 × 49.9 cm (13 1/2 × 19 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 93, State iv/v

Accession Number

1943.3.6177

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

"Bon à tirer pour vingt-cinq épreuves a / 16 octobre 1864. / C. Meryon" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "KK616" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "Le bain froid chevrier-H.IV.44-(collection Hayard)" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "O.S.L.J" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "1184" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "21776" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

Exhibition History

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Chevrier's Cold-Bath Establishment, Sometimes Called the School-Baths.

Bibliography

1924: Delteil, Loys and Harold J.L. Wright. Catalogue raisonne of the Etchings of Charles Meryon. New York: Winfred Porter Truesdell, 1924.

1990: Schneiderman, Richard S. The Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints by Charles Meryon. London: Garton & Co., 1990.