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Currently not on display

Charles Meryon

Paris, 1821 - Charenton, 1868

<Eaux-Fortes sur Paris>: Le Stryge

Date 1853
Materials and Techniques etching and drypoint on paper
Size(cm) 17.3 x 12.8 (plate)
State 5th state
Inscriptions Signed bottom in the oval image: CM; Inscribed along the outside of the oval image: C.Meryon del. sculp- -MDCCCLIII-(numbers inside out), A. Delâtre imp. rue de la bucherie 6.
Standard ref. Delteil 23
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2003-0021

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2003.

Exhibition History

2021
National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_64 | T2_67

Bibliography

1863
Burty, Philipe. L'œuvre de M. Charles Méryon: II. Eaux-fortes sur Paris. Gazette des Beaux-Arts. t. 15, 1er Juillet, 1863, pp. 78-79.
1971
Holcomb, Adele M. Le Stryge de Notre-Dame: Some Aspects of Meryon's Symbolism. Art Journal. vol. 31, no. 2, Winter, 1971-1972, pp. 150-157.
1974
Charles Meryon Prints & Drawings (exh. cat.). Burke, James D., ed. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, 29 September - 27 October 1974; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 21 November 1974 - 19 January 1975; St. Louis Art Museum, 14 February - 6 April 1975. [New Haven], [Yale University Art Gallery], 1974, pp. 35-39, cat. nos. 8-13.
1978
Baudelaire, Charles. Abe, Yoshio, trans.. Gaka to dohangaka [peintres et Aqua-fortistes, 1862]. Baudelaire zenshu. vol. 4, Kyoto, Jimbun shoin, 1978 (1964), pp. 392-7. (Japanese)
1990
Schneiderman, Richard S. The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Charles Meryon. London, Garton & Co, 1990, no. 27
1994
Kitani, Makoto. "Mohitotsu no ijona monogatagari: Baudelaire to Meryon". La gravure et Baudelaire (exh. cat.). Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, 1994, pp. 33-43. (Japanese)
2005
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 38 (Apr. 2003-Mar. 2004), 2005, List of New Acquisitions. p. 46.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 98, 181, cat. no. Y2_64 | T2_67, col. repr.

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