La Tour de l'Horloge, Paris (The Clock Tower, Paris), 1852

Not on View

Medium

etching on wove Japanese paper

Dimensions

plate: 26.5 × 18.8 cm (10 7/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

sheet: 27 × 19.2 cm (10 5/8 × 7 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 23, State ii/x

Accession Number

1943.3.6164

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

Not signed. Not dated. "LD 88 2e et [illeg.]." verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Provenance

Clendenin J. Ryan [1881-1939], New York City; (sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 18 January 1940, lot 174); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Ryan, Clendenin J.

Exhibition History

1965: Dedicatory Art Exhibition for the William Cooper Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1965, no. 19.

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.