About the Artwork
Le stryge
1853
Charles Meryon (Artist) French, 1821-1868 Auguste Delâtre (Printer) French, 1872-1907
Etching printed in black ink on japan paper
Plate: 6 3/4 inches × 5 inches (17.1 × 12.7 cm) Sheet: 12 3/4 × 10 1/8 inches (32.4 × 25.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S780
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Markings
Signed in plate, lower left of image: C. M In plate, outside frame of image, lower left: C. Meryon del. sculp- | MDCCCLIII [reversed]
Inscribed in plate, outside frame of image, lower right: A. Delatre imp. rue de la bucherie. 6. Added in ink to Scripps stamp: 1886
Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) Stamp, verso: Mary Jane Morgan (Lugt 1879)
Provenance
March 1886, sale, 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. 8-13.
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Charles Meryon, Le stryge, 1853, etching printed in black ink on japan paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S780.
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