Inscription
Not signed. Not dated. "Trial proof" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "LD 70 undescribed [illeg.] 1st state" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "From the [illeg.] Niel + Thibaudeau collections" lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "B63" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "120" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. Verso: none.
Marks and Labels
"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, stamped twice. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Cortland F. Bishop collector's stamp) verso, purple stamped ink (Lugt 2770b).
Provenance
Jules Niel [19th century], Paris; Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau [1840-1893], London, (Lugt 2412); Bernard B. MacGeorge [1845-1924], Glasgow, (Lugt 394); Herschel V. Jones [1861-1928], Minneapolis; (sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 29 March 1921, lot 229); Cortlandt F. Bishop [1870-1935], New York City, (Lugt 2770b); (sale, American Art Association & Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, 19 November 1935, lot 153); Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1946.
Exhibition History
- 1955
- The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.
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.
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