Charles Meryon and Charles Meryon
Le Petit Pont, Paris
1844-1854
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 432 × 323 mm. (17 × 12 11/16 in.)
Plate: 265 × 192 mm. (10 7/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
Image: 244 × 187 mm. (9 5/8 × 7 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.1
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
Schneiderman, Richard S., The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Charles Meryon, London: Garton & Co., 1990, no. 20.
Burty, Philippe, Charles Meryon, Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher, A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works, London: Fine Art Society, 1879, no. 38. Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Meryon and Meryon's Paris, London, 1892, no. 8. L'Artiste, vol. V no. 14, Dec. 5, 1858.
Delteil, Loys and Harold J.L. Wright, Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings of Charles Meryon, New York: W.P. Truesdell, 1924, no. 24.
Inscribed: Recto: in image, upper right, in plate "C.M."; below image, lower left, in graphite circle with "[indecipherable]"; below image, lower and center left, in graphite "[indecipherable]"; below image, lower right, in graphite "Delteil 24 / 4/7"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "495(?)[indecipherable]"
Markings: CM: Unidentified collector (Lugt 850)
