La morgue, Paris (The Mortuary), 1854

Not on View

Medium

etching and drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

image (irreg.): 21.2 × 19 cm (8 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.)
plate: 23.2 × 20.7 cm (9 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

sheet: 29.1 × 24.8 cm (11 7/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 42, State iv/vii

Accession Number

1949.1.29

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

"C. Meryon del. sculp. mdcccliv" lower left margin, in plate, artist's hand. "Imp. Rue neuve St. Etienne-du-Mont. No 26.-" lower right margin, in plate, artist's hand. "9970" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. "RHG" verso, black stamped ink.

Exhibition History

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Mortuary, 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.