Charles Meryon
New Caledonia: Large Native Hut on the Road from Balade to Puébo
c. 1860
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Charles Meryon
New Caledonia: Large Native Hut on the Road from Balade to Puébo
c. 1860
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 225 × 362 mm. (8 7/8 × 14 1/4 in.)
Plate: 142 × 246 mm. (5 9/16 × 9 11/16 in.)
Image: 119 × 226 mm. (4 11/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.5
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
Paris Salon of 1863.
Schneiderman, Richard S., The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Charles Meryon, London: Garton & Co., 1990, no. 87. Burty, Philippe, Charles Meryon, Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher, A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works, London: Fine Art Society, 1879, no. 64. Wedmore, Sir Frederick, Meryon and Meryon's Paris, London, 1892, no. 40.
Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in graphite circle with "84"; below image, lower left, in graphite to the right of the circle "11"; below image, lower left, in graphite "ax / 1er etat."; below image, lower center left, in graphite "Wedmore p. 67 No 40 1 state / Burty p. 81 No 64 2nd state"; below image, lower center, in graphite "667 New Caledonia"; below image, lower center right, in graphite "2nd state"; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "4958"; below image, lower right, in graphite "D"
Markings: None
