Tourelle de la Rue de la Tixéranderie, Paris (House with a Turret, Weavers' Street, Paris), 1852

Not on View

Medium

etching on green laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24.6 × 13.2 cm (9 11/16 × 5 3/16 in.)

sheet (irreg.): 35.7 × 22.1 cm (14 1/16 × 8 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 24, State iii/v

Accession Number

1949.1.25

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

"C.M." upper right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "Tourelle rue de la Tixéranderie-" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "k4439 / c4919" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "c.12867" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

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

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1925 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York City; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Gallatin, R. Horace
Knoedler & Company, M.

Exhibition History

1977: Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 115.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Turreted House in the rue de la Tixeranderie, Paris.

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.