Le malingre cryptogame (The Sickly Cryptogam), 1860

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 7.1 × 5.9 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.)

sheet: 14.1 × 12.2 cm (5 9/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schneiderman 1990, no. 68, State ii/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.6152

Artists / Makers

Charles Meryon (artist) French, 1821 - 1868

Image Use

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Inscription

[Charles Meryon monogram signature] lower right composition, in plate, artist's hand. Not dated. "c14301" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "[illegible]" verso, lower center sheet, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

(unidentified collector's stamp) lower right margin, red stamped ink, (Lugt 2074). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink.

Exhibition History

1956: Visionaries and Dreamers, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no. 54.

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.