Tourelle de la Rue de la Tixéranderie, Paris (House with a Turret, Weavers' Street, Paris)

1852

Charles Meryon

Associated Names
Charles Meryon

Artist, French, 1821 - 1868

The image shows an architectural scene with tightly packed multi-story buildings. The view is from street level, with rooftops and chimneys extending upwards against a textured sky filled with smoke. The artwork is an etching with precise linework. Figures engage in daily activities in the foreground, while shadows and highlights add contrast in tones of sepia and dark brown. Trees are intertwined around the bases of the buildings.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on green laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 24.6 × 13.2 cm (9 11/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 36.1 × 22.3 cm (14 3/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.9101

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schneiderman 1990, no. 24, State iii/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 168.

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 116-117, repro.

1945

  • French Prints of the 19th Century from the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico City, 1945, no. 24, repro.

1946

  • Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, Auburn, NY, 1946, no cat.

1951

  • French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, University of Pittsburgh, 1951.

1960

  • Graphic Masterpieces of 500 Years from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, 1960, no. 42.

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.

Inscriptions

"C.M." upper right composition, in plate, artist's hand. Not dated. "2e état, avec la monogramme dans l'angle supsérilever â droit. C'est la 1er état du M. Burty." lower margin, graphite, unknown hand. "5" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "9" [encircled] verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "181 VL Niel / "2e état, avec la monogramme dans l'angle supsérilever â droit-C'est la 1er état du Cal. Burty-" verso, center sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Markings

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d). (Louis Valentin collector's stamp) verso, blue stamped ink, (Lugt 2498).

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q65019247

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