L'abside de Notre-Dame de Paris (The Apse of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris), 1854

Not on View

Medium

etching, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 14.8 × 28.8 cm (5 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
plate: 16.5 × 29.8 cm (6 1/2 × 11 3/4 in.)

sheet: 21.5 × 34.1 cm (8 7/16 × 13 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 45, State iii/ix

Accession Number

1943.3.6171

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. "No 50. 1e termine -see note by Delatre at back" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "D4631-" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "4e ep. la plus belle que j'ai tiré / de cotte planche. Aug Delâtre" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, Auguste Delâtre's hand.

Marks and Labels

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

Exhibition History

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 81.

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 104.

1966: Art in the Making, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME, 1966.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Apse of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris.

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.