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Charles Meryon

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Etching of a medieval gatehouse with two round conical towers, streaming banners, a bird overhead, and a hatched radiating sk

Ancienne Porte du Palais de Justice

1850

Pencil sketch of a raven on a rail, with a separate study of a clawed foot and handwritten notes below.

A Raven Perched on a Rail

mid-19th century

Etching of a stone archway with two figures, beside a columned domed monument with a Corinthian capital and ruined walls.

Poort bij ingang van het klooster van franse Capucijnen in Athene

1854

Etched rebus print with a bird, table, fortress outline, barrel, hunter and signpost, with French text, 1863.

Rebus: Béranger was not Really Strong, for he Never had the Key of the Fields

1863

Etching of a thatched hut beside a palm tree, with rolling hills, tents and a distant mountain under cloudy skies.

La chaumière du colon vieux-soldat à Akaroa, 1845

1866

Small etched plate with chains, wine glasses and French verse around a pump house, mounted on cream paper.

The Notre-Dame Pump (small plate)

1854

Etching of a turreted stone building with a spiral staircase, ivy, smoking chimneys and figures in a street.

Tourelle, Rue de la Tixéranderie

1852

Etching of Paris riverside with tall buildings, smoking chimneys, a stone embankment with onlookers, and moored boats with la

The Mortuary, Paris (La Morgue)

1854

Portrait of Louis Jacques Marie Bizeul, the Breton Archaeologist

1861

Etched bust portrait of a bearded man with tousled hair and a cravat, labeled Benjamin Fillon, 1862.

Benjamin Fillon, homme de lettres

1862

Etched head-and-shoulders portrait of a bearded man with curly hair, wearing a dark jacket and cravat, on a light sheet.

Portrait of Armand Guéraud of Nantes, Printer and Man of Letters

1861-62

Printseller's address card with red decorative border, Gothic church, bridge with statue, and text reading Estampes anciennes

Address-Card of the Printseller, Rochoux

c. 1855

Etching with stacked vignettes of a cliff, a shore with a boat, an interior, and seated sailors around a mast in an oval.

Rebus: 'No, Morny is not dead for he is marrying again'

January 1866

Lithograph of a crouching gargoyle on a Gothic parapet beside a tower, with French verse and the date November 1853 above.

Regarding One of the Gargoyles of Nôtre-Dame, Paris

1853

Etched portrait of a bearded man in a dark robe and white ruff collar, with a coat of arms at upper right.

Portrait of Jean Besly, Historian

1861

Etched half-length portrait of a bearded man in a ruff collar and embroidered doublet, gazing toward the viewer.

Portrait of Th. Agrippa d'Aubigné

1861-62

Etched bust portrait of a man with tousled hair, mustache and cravat, printed small on a wide cream sheet.

Portrait of Benjamin Fillon, Writer and Historian

1862

Etching of a stylized cross-like figure with outstretched arms, surrounded by handwritten French text and the date MDCCCLXVI.

Lunar Law, No. 2

1866

Etched frame design with a blank center, surrounded by books, scrolls, pens, and a cat resting before an open law book.

Design for a Frame for the Portrait of Armand Guéraud

1862

Small etching of a seated figure at a basin in a niche, framed by a circular border of letters with a rebus caption below.

Rebus: Here Lies the Ancient Vendetta

1862

Title page of Meryon's portfolio of etching copies, with ornamental script, blue capitals and a handwritten dedication.

Portfolio

May 10, 1890

Small etched print of a rider on a rearing horse with a balloon-shaped headdress, above French verse text.

Little Prince Dito

1864

Etched dedication plate with ornate script verses addressed to Eugène Bléry, signed by Charles Meryon, on a pale sheet.

Verses Dedicated to Eugène Bléry, No. 2

1854

Small printed sheet with a handwritten-style verse dedicated to Eugène Bléry in ornate script within a decorative border.

Verses Dedicated to Eugène Bléry, No. 1

1854

Etching of a columned classical building beside a busy Paris square with an obelisk, carriages, and birds in a cloudy sky.

The Admiralty, Paris

1866

Pencil sketch of a tall old building with steep roof, dormer windows and a chimney, drawn on pale paper.

Rue des Toiles, Bourges

1853

Etched page with the handwritten French poem L'attelage and a small vignette of a horse and figure in a landscape.

The Ploughman and His Horse

1854

Handwritten French letter in brown ink on aged paper, addressed to Monsieur le Directeur, with a signature at lower right.

Charles Meryon Autographed Letter

March 24, 1854

Etching of two horses, one lying on the ground and one standing with head lowered, in a rural landscape with trees and a farm

Two Horses

1850

Etched title page on tan paper reading Eaux-fortes sur Paris par C. Meryon, 1852, with hatched border and small decorative mo

Etchings of Paris; Title page to the suite

1852

Printed sheet with ornate French dedicatory verses in a rectangular frame, with handwritten notes on the margins.

Dedicatory verses by Meryon to Reiner Nooms, called Zeeman

1854

Etching of a coat of arms with a castle crown, fleur-de-lis, a sailing ship on waves, and laurel branches below.

Coat-of-Arms Symbolizing the City of Paris, from "Etchings of Paris"

1854