About the Artwork
La Rue Pirouette aux Halles
1860
Charles Meryon (Artist) French, 1821-1868 Auguste Delâtre (Printer) French, 1872-1907
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 6 × 4 1/2 inches (15.2 × 11.4 cm) Sheet: 10 × 8 inches (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S781
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Markings
Inscribed in plate, lower left: LAURENCE DEL. Lower right: MERYON SCULP. Lower center: RUE PIROUETTE. | AUX HALLES. | 1860 | DELATRE IMP. R. St. Js. 265 In pencil, lower left corner: No. 781 Largely illegible notation in brown ink, lower right corner: A mon ami Eugene [ ] reau | hommage d'un [ ] | L. Laurence
Stamp in blue ink, verso: Mary Jane Morgan (Lugt 1879) Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [added in ink to the stamp: 1888]
Provenance
Louis-Marie Laurence
Eugene [ ]reau
Mary Jane Morgan. 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Burke, J. D. Charles Meryon: Prints and Drawings. New Haven, 1974, nos. 82-83.
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Charles Meryon, La Rue Pirouette aux Halles, 1860, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S781.
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