Charles Meryon and Jacques-Philippe Lebas
Entrance to the French Capuchin Monastery in Athens
1853
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- Artist: Charles Meryon
- Artist: Jacques-Philippe Lebas
Entrance to the French Capuchin Monastery in Athens
1853
Physical Qualities
Etching with drypoint, Sheet (trimmed): 246 × 151 mm. (9 11/16 × 5 15/16 in.)
Plate: 193 × 125 mm. (7 5/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
Image: 178 × 111 mm. (7 × 4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Winifred M. Gordon, Baltimore, in Memory of her Husband, Douglas Huntly Gordon
Object Number
1992.230
Douglas Gordon Collection (Lugt 1130a).
Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper left, in plate "tome 1, page 76 -"; below image, lower left, in plate "C. Meryon sculp."; below image, center, in plate "Entrée du Couvent des capucins francais à Athènes."; below image, lower right, in plate "Pierron Delatre R Montfaucon I"; below image, lower left, in graphite "H(?)0[underlined] /84"; below image, lower center, in graphite "38-24 / bureau a chagrin 73 au Lafet(?)"; below image, lower right, in graphite "bo[indecipherable]de(?) French(?) / anneau(?)"; below image, lower right, in graphite "C32831"
Markings: CM: Gordon (Lugt 1130a) WM: [indecipherable; trimmed]
