La morgue, Paris (The Mortuary), 1854

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 21.4 × 19.1 cm (8 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
plate: 23.2 × 20.7 cm (9 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

sheet: 25.4 × 24.3 cm (10 × 9 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 42, State i/vii

Accession Number

1949.5.76

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

Not signed. Not dated. "55" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "1er état / 2e [illeg.] lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "D-W 36 1 of 7" lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "[illeg.], et / [illeg.]" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d). (Albert W. Scholle collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 2923a). (Unidentified collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 2412).

Provenance

Jules Niel [19th century], Paris; Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau [1840-1893], London, (Lugt 2412); Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394); Albert W. Scholle [1860-1917], New York City, (Lugt 2923a); Joseph H. Seaman [1865-1948]; (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 1 December 1948, lot 138); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan
Niel, Jules
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Scholle, Albert W.
Seaman, Joseph H.
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt

Exhibition History

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 103.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 20, repro.

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.

1997: Roskill, Mark. The Languages of Landscape. University Park, PA, 1997: 88, fig. 39.