Charles Meryon, 1854

Not on View

Medium

etching in brown-black and red on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 10.7 x 8.8 cm (4 3/16 x 3 7/16 in.)

sheet: 46.1 x 30.5 cm (18 1/8 x 12 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 78, State ii/iii (?)

Accession Number

1943.3.2101

Artists / Makers

Félix Bracquemond (artist) French, 1833 - 1914

Image Use

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Inscription

along left side of medallion in plate: CH. MERYON; lower left in plate in red ink: B (underlined) / a / C.M. [Bracquemond to Charles Meryon]; lower center to lower right in plate: Imp. A. Delâtre. Rue No. St Etienne du Mont No 26.; bottom right, in graphite: Bracquemond Portrait de Ch Meryon - [indecipherable] / (E E 2535); verso, bottrom right, in graphite: 5094

Marks and Labels

verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d); stamped in black ink: [mark indecipherable]

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1971: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, tour organized by the Illinois Art Council, 1971-1972.

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.

1987: Bouillon, Jean-Paul. Félix Bracquemond, Le Réalisme Absolu: oeuvre gravé 1849-1859, catalogue raisonné, Geneva: Skira, 1987.