L'ancien Louvre d'après une peinture de Zeeman, 1651 (The Old Louvre, from a Painting by Zeeman, 1651)

1866

Charles Meryon

Artist, French, 1821 - 1868

Chalcographic Society of the Louvre

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 13.97 × 24.77 cm (5 1/2 × 9 3/4 in.)
    plate: 16.67 × 26.99 cm (6 9/16 × 10 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.64 × 33.18 cm (8 1/8 × 13 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.6669

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schneiderman 1990, no. 96, State v/vii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Old Louvre, from a Painting by Reynier Zeeman, 1651.

Bibliography

1924

  • Delteil, Loys and Harold J.L. Wright. Catalogue raisonne of the Etchings of Charles Meryon. New York: Winfred Porter Truesdell, 1924.

1990

  • Schneiderman, Richard S. The Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints by Charles Meryon. London: Garton & Co., 1990.

Inscriptions

Not signed. Not dated. "L'Ancien Louvre" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "D. 53" upper right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "(EE 2537)" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "15727" [underlined] verso, lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Markings

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d).

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q65019239

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