Présentation du Valère Maxime au Rois Louis XI (The Printer Valerius Maximus Being Presented to King Louis XI), 1860

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 14.5 × 17 cm (5 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
plate: 17.3 × 19.9 cm (6 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

sheet: 22 × 31.2 cm (8 11/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 71, State i/vii

Accession Number

1943.3.6187

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

"[illeg.] initiales CM." lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "LD 94I" lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "From the Jules Niel, Thibaudeau collectons / + Macgeorge" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "38" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "B25" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

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.