Collège Henri IV, Paris, ou Lycée Napoléon (Henry IV College or Napoleon School, Paris), 1864

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 22 × 41.2 cm (8 11/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
plate: 29.7 × 48.2 cm (11 11/16 × 19 in.)

sheet: 35.4 × 53.5 cm (13 15/16 × 21 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 91, State v/xii

Accession Number

1943.3.6146

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Pierron, French, active 1849-1866 (printer)

Image Use

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Inscription

(Charles Meryon's monogram) upper center composition, in plate, artist's hand. "1863-64" lower right margin, in plate, artist's hand. "Imp. Pierron r. Montfaucon, 1" lower left margin, in plate, artist's hand. "Paris. ROUCHOUX Quai de l'Horloge. 19" lower left margin, in plate. "COLLÉGE HENRI IV, OU LYCÉE NAPOLÉON, AVEC SES DÉPENDANCES ET CONSTRUCTION VOISINES" lower right margin, in plate. "Cette...entreprises" lower right margin, in plate. " Paris, ce 15 Janvier 1864." lower right margin, in plate. "plus 10 de celui-ci." lower right margin, black ink, artist's hand. "L. D 43" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Cortland F. Bishop collector's mark) verso, purple stamped ink, (Lugt 2770b).

Provenance

Cortland F. Bishop [1870-1935], New York City; (sale, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, 19 November 1935, lot 139); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bishop, Cortland Field
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1955: The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Collège Henri IV, or Lycée Napoléon, Paris.

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

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.