Evariste Boulay-Paty; A Poet (From a Bronze by David d'Angers), 1861

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 7.1 × 7.3 cm (2 13/16 × 2 7/8 in.)
plate: 10.5 × 10.5 cm (4 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.)

sheet (irreg.): 14.5 × 18.5 cm (5 11/16 × 7 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 75, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1943.3.6153

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Auguste Delâtre (printer) French, 1822 - 1907

Image Use

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Inscription

Not signed. Not dated. "Delâtre Imp. r. des Feuillantines, 4, Paris" lower center margin, in plate, artist's hand. "EVARISTE BOULAY-PATY" lower center margin, in plate. "E. Boulay-Paty" right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "B89" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "77." upper right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "c.1247/k.358" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "33" verso, lower center sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d). "T" (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); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

MacGeorge, Bernard Buchanan
Niel, Jules
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Thibaudeau, Alphonse Wyatt

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.