The Morgue, Paris
after Charles Meryon, French, 1821 - 1868
1926
Reproduction
Image: 8 7/16 in. (21.5 cm)
Image: 7 11/16 in. (19.5 cm)
Plate: 9 7/16 × 8 3/8 in. (24 × 21.2 cm)
Sheet: 21 3/8 × 14 3/4 in. (54.3 × 37.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Maida and George Abrams
PR.974.361
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left: C. Meryon del. sculp. mdccliv; lower right: Imp. Rue neuve St. Etienne du Mont. no. 26 Watermark: 19*22
Exhibition History
Death and Dying: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 55, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-March 26, 1995.
Figures and Structures: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 2-March 10, 1996.
French Art in the Age of George Sand: Prints from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, January 27-February 24, 1994.
Treasures from the Print Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 3-August 17, 1980.
Provenance
Maida Stocker Abrams (1938-2002) and George S. Abrams, Boston, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1974.
Catalogue Raisonne
R. Schneiderman, The Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints of Charles Meryon, London, 1990, under no. 42.
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