La Rue Pirouette aux halles, Paris (Pirouette Street, Near the Markets, Paris), 1860

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 12.8 × 9.8 cm (5 1/16 × 3 7/8 in.)
plate: 15.5 × 11.6 cm (6 1/8 × 4 9/16 in.)

sheet: 31.6 × 22.4 cm (12 7/16 × 8 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 66, State iii/vii

Accession Number

1943.3.6676

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

"C.M. et L." upper right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "JAMET / M MAREE / BAINS DE MER / DIEPPE / JEANNE DAR / OUTILS LAB / CHARS CH / HERSESS / AU / DIABLE MURE / ASSURANC / CON / LINCEND / MILLE SERINGU / USTEN SILES / MENAGELEMT / HONORABLE-EX / 1860 / FRANC M / TABA" right composition, in plate. "DUVAL" lower left composition, in plate. "MERCEVINS" lower left composition, in plate. "16 DUPRE Mr BOUCHE" lower center composition, in plate. "CONTRIBU" lower right composition, in plate. "TABAC" lower right composition, in plate. "RUE PIROUETTE" lower center margin, in plate. "LD+W 49 III" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "c.16936" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "8" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped three times. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

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.