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Chevrier’s Cold Bath Establishment, Sometimes Called ‘The School Baths,’ Paris
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Charles Meryon

Chevrier’s Cold Bath Establishment, Sometimes Called ‘The School Baths,’ Paris

1864

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Charles Meryon

Chevrier’s Cold Bath Establishment, Sometimes Called ‘The School Baths,’ Paris

1864

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 274 × 365 mm. (10 13/16 × 14 3/8 in.) Plate: 131 × 144 mm. (5 3/16 × 5 11/16 in.) Image: 120 × 136 mm. (4 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line The Miles White, Jr. Collection
Object Number 1976.15.26

Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper center, in plate "[Meryon's monogram]"; in image, center right, in plate "[on billboard] BAIN FROID / CHEVRIER / 20"; below image, lower left, in plate "PARIS. MDCCCLXIV"; below image, center, in plate "BAIN-FROID CHEVRIER / DIT DE L'ÉCOLE"; below image, lower right, in plate "Pierron Imp Paris" Verso: center left in graphite "725 32"; center right in graphite "OM(?)"

Markings: CM: White Jr. (Lugt 1926a) WM: crowned escutcheon

Artist

Charles Meryon

French, 1821-1868

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