Les trois cochons couchés devant l'étable (Three Swine Lying In Front of a Sty), 1850

Not on View

Medium

etching on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 14.7 × 13 cm (5 13/16 × 5 1/8 in.)
plate: 19.4 × 17.6 cm (7 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.)

sheet: 23.7 × 21 cm (9 5/16 × 8 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 6, State i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.3123

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Karel Dujardin (artist after) Dutch, 1626 - 1678

Image Use

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Inscription

Not signed. Not dated. "d'apres K. du Jardin" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "LD. 6 I" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "c. 1042" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "19A" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "c.1042/k.294" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

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

Provenance

Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge [1845-1924], Glasgow; Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan
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.