La Pompe Notre-Dame, Paris (The Notre-Dame Pump), 1852

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 17.2 × 25.2 cm (6 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.)

sheet (irreg.): 32.1 × 46.9 cm (12 5/8 × 18 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 26, State x/x

Accession Number

1943.3.6168

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Auguste Delâtre (printer) French, 1822 - 1907

Image Use

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Inscription

"C.M." upper right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "LA POMPE NOTRE-DAME. / 1852." lower center composition, in plate. "A. DELATRE IMP. R.S. JACQUES, 265." lower right margin, in plate, artist's hand. "8" lower left composition, in plate, artist's hand. "[illeg.] a616" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Bishop F. Courtland collector's stamp) verso, purple stamped ink, (Lugt 2770b). (Charles W. Dowdeswell collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 690).

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.