La Pompe Notre-Dame, Paris (The Notre-Dame Pump), 1852

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.2 × 25.2 cm (6 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)

sheet (irreg.): 32.1 × 46.9 cm (12 5/8 × 18 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 26, State x/x

Accession Number

1943.3.6168

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Auguste Delâtre (printer) French, 1822 - 1907

Image Use

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Inscription

"C.M." upper right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "LA POMPE NOTRE-DAME. / 1852." lower center composition, in plate. "A. DELATRE IMP. R.S. JACQUES, 265." lower right margin, in plate, artist's hand. "8" lower left composition, in plate, artist's hand. "[illeg.] a616" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d). (Cortland F. Bishop collector's stamp) verso, purple stamped ink, (Lugt 2770b). (Charles W. Dowdeswell collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 690).

Provenance

Charles W. Dowdeswell [1832-1915], London, (Lugt 690); Cortlandt F. Bishop [1870-1935], New York City, (Lugt 2770b); (sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, 19 November 1935, lot 128); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bishop, Cortlandt Field
Dowdeswell, Charles William
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.