L'ancien Louvre d'après une peinture de Zeeman, 1651 (The Old Louvre, from a Painting by Zeeman, l651), 1866

Not on View

Medium

etching with graphite additions on laid Hudelist paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.6 × 27.2 cm (7 11/16 × 10 11/16 in.)

sheet (irreg.): 25.7 × 33.5 cm (10 1/8 × 13 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection)

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 96, State ii/vii

Accession Number

1968.15.1

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

Not signed. Not dated. "LD 53 II" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "51936" [encircled] lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "3" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "1667kk15B.2" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Provenance

(G. Hoffman); purchased 1968 by NGA.

Associated Names

Hoffman, G.

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.