Inscription
"A Monsieur Niel / faible temoignage d'affection, ' de reconnaissance infinie / C. Meryon" lower right margin, brown ink, artist's hand. "24 Octobre 60." lower left margin, brown ink, artist's hand. "Finished study for the etching / Greniers indigenes à Akaroa / by C. Meryon / LD 70" verso, lower center sheet, graphite, unknown hand. "from the Niel+Heywood collections" verso, lower right sheet, graphite, unknown hand.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d). (Cortland F. Bishop collector's stamp) verso, purple stamped ink, (Lugt 2770b). "B.M." (Bernard B. MacGeorge collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 394).
Provenance
Jules Niel [19th century], Paris; Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau [1840-1893], London, (Lugt 2412); Bernard B. MacGeorge [1845-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394); Herschel V. Jones [1861-1928], Minneapolis; (sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 29 March 1921, lot 230); Cortlandt F. Bishop [1870-1935], New York City, (Lugt 2770b); (sale, American Art Association & Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, 19 November 1935, lot 152); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1946.
Exhibition History
- 1955
- The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.
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