Le Petit Pont, Paris, 1850

Not on View

Medium

etching and engraving on green laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25.6 × 18.6 cm (10 1/16 × 7 5/16 in.)

sheet: 27.9 × 20.3 cm (11 × 8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 20, State iv/ix

Accession Number

1949.1.33

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. Not dated. "-732" verso, lower center sheet, black ink, unknown hand. "c4863" verso, lower left sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

(Philippe Burty collector's stamp), lower left margin, red stamped ink, (Lugt 413). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

Exhibition History

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Petit-Pont, 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.