
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21.2 × 18.9 cm (8 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.)
plate: 23 × 20.5 cm (9 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
sheet (irreg.): 35.9 × 26.4 cm (14 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.6172
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schneiderman 1990, no. 42, State iii/vii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Henry Studdy Theobald [1847-1934], London; Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 53, repro.
1945
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 80.
1953
The Collector's Taste, Andrew Dickinson White Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1953-1954.
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.
1992
Beck, Hubert. Edward Hopper. Hamburg, 1992: p. 35.
Inscriptions
"à Monsieur Gustave Salicis / son bien dévoué / C. Meryon" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. Not dated. "43" verso, lower center sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Markings
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).
Watermarks
None.
Wikidata ID
Q65019217