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Le Petit Pont,
1850
Charles Meryon, French, 1821–1868
x1969-318
Charles Meryon’s haunting series of etchings eulogized the labyrinthine streets and looming Gothic monuments of Paris, a city largely unchanged since the middle ages, and helped to spark a French etching revival in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1853, Napoléon III authorized Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann to oversee the transformation of Paris into a modernized capital of broad boulevards, railway stations, and public parks, forever changing much of the city’s medieval character, cherished by Romantic writers such as Victor Hugo and Charles Baudelaire.
Information
Title
Le Petit Pont
Dates
1850
Maker
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 25.7 x 18.8 cm. (10 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
sheet: 27.6 x 20.5 cm. (10 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David H. McAlpin, Class of 1920, and Mrs. McAlpin in memory of Professor Clifton R. Hall
Object Number
x1969-318
Place Depicted
Europe, France, Paris, Petit Pont
Inscription
Initialed in plate, upper right corner: C. M.
Reference Numbers
Delteil 24; Delteil and Wright 24; Schneiderman 20
Materials
Techniques
Subject
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Loys Delteil, "Volume 2," Le peintre-graveur illustré (Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1906-1930).
, no. 26 (illus.) - Loys Delteil and Harold Wright, Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings of Charles Meryon (New York: W. P. Truesdell, 1924)., no. 26
- "Acquisitions 1969", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 29, no. 1 (1970): p. 16-27., p. 23
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Richard S. Schneiderman, The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Charles Meryon (London: Garton & Co. in assocation with Scolar Press, 1990).
, no. 29
