L'abside de Notre-Dame de Paris (The Apsis ofthe Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris), 1854

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 14.9 × 28.9 cm (5 7/8 × 11 3/8 in.)
plate: 16.5 × 30 cm (6 1/2 × 11 13/16 in.)

sheet: 22.8 × 36 cm (9 × 14 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 45, State i/ix

Accession Number

1958.8.110

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

Not signed. Not dated. "Epreuve non termine" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "LD 38I" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "(From the Niel Heywood collections)" lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "Possibly unique thus" lower right margin, graphite, unknonw hand. "27" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "30" upper right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "37" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Albert W. Scholle collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 2923a).

Exhibition History

1966: Art in the Making, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME, 1966.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 22, repro.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Apse of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris.

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.