L'abside de Notre-Dame de Paris (The Apse ofthe Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris)
1854
Artist, French, 1821 - 1868
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Artwork overview
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Medium
etching on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 14.9 × 28.9 cm (5 7/8 × 11 3/8 in.)
plate: 16.5 × 30 cm (6 1/2 × 11 13/16 in.)
sheet: 22.8 × 36 cm (9 × 14 3/16 in.) -
Accession
1958.8.110
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schneiderman 1990, no. 45, State i/ix
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jules Niel [19th century], Paris; J.J. Heywood [d. 1887], London; Bernard B. MacGeorge [1845-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394); Atherton Curtis [1863-1943], Paris, (Lugt 94); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1958.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1966
Art in the Making, Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME, 1966.
1982
Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 22, repro.
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.
Inscriptions
Not signed. Not dated. "Epreuve non termine" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "LD 38I" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "(From the Niel Heywood collections)" lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "Possibly unique thus" lower right margin, graphite, unknonw hand. "27" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "30" upper right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "37" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Markings
"National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d). (Albert W. Scholle collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 2923a).
Watermarks
[illeg.]
Wikidata ID
Q65222216