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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    House with a Turret, rue de la Tixéranderie, Paris
    Charles Meryon. House with a Turret, rue de la Tixéranderie, Paris, 1852. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002462

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    House with a Turret, rue de la Tixéranderie, Paris

    by Charles Meryon

    Inscriptions

    Not signed

    Provenance

    Sold by Afrthur H. Hahlo and Company, New York, to Lucy Maud Buckingham (1856-1920), Chicago, May 26, 1917 [invoice]; given by her sister Kate S. Buckingham (1858-1937), Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1938.

    Exhibition history

    New York, M. Knoedler and Company, "Etchings and Drawings by Charles Meryon: The B.B. MacGeorge Collection," 1917, cat. 123. Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art, "Charles Meryon," September 29-October 27, 1974; traveled to New Haven, Conn., the Yale University Art Gallery, November 21, 1974-January 19, 1975; and the St. Louis Art Museum, February 14-April 6, 1975. Frankfurt, Germany, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, "Charles Meryon: Paris um 1850: Zeichnungen, Redierungen, Photographien," October 22, 1975-May 6, 1976; traveled to The Hague, the Gemeentenmuseum, March 27-May 6, 1976.

    Publications

    Philip Burty, translated by Marcus B. Huish, Charles Meryon, Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher : A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works (London : Fine Art Society, 1879), 43. Frederick Wedmore, A Catalogue of Etchings by Méryon: As Exhibited at No. 168, New Bond Street, November-December, 1902, (London : Obach & Co., 1902), 13. Loys Delteil, with the addition of many newly discovered states, and edited by Harold J.L. Wright, Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings of Charles Meryon (NY: W.P. Truesdell, 1924), 29. Richard S. Schneiderman ; with the assistance of Frank W. Raysor, II, The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Charles Meryon (London : Garton & Co. in association with Scolar Press, 1990), 24.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Charles Meryon / French, 1821-1868
    Date
    1852
    Medium
    Graphite, with smudging, on cream tracing paper, tipped on ivory wove card
    Dimensions
    28.9 × 20 cm (11 7/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    graphite
    Place
    Paris
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Clarence Buckingham Collection
    Accession no.
    1938.1664

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