Masterworks of Printmaking and Drawing
- Dürer, Saint Christopher
- Claesz, Vignette with a Sphinx
- Tempesta, Turkish Soldiers
- Goltzius, Apollo
- Ribera, The Poet
- Callot, Les Danseurs
- Rembrandt, Nude Man Seated
- Ostade, The Hunchbacked Fiddler
- Everdingen, The Dilapidated Cottage
- Piranesi, The Well
- Goya, Esto Si Que Es Leer
- Descourtis, L'Amant Surpris
- Daumier, Aspect de le la Salle
- Meryon, Le Petit Pont
- Lessore, Barge Builders
- Lalanne, Rade de Bordeaux
- Andrieux, Don Quixote Telling
- Whistler, Wheelwright
- Buhot, Dèbarquement en Angleterre
- Toulouse-Lautrec, Repetition Generale
- Cross, Champs-Elyseè
- Zorn, The New Maid
- Munch, Alte Männer und Knaben
- Delâtre, Standing Peasant
- Vallotton, La Nuit
- Kollwitz, Tod Hält Mädchen
- Matisse, La Persane
- Sloan, Romany Marye's
- Villon, La Petite Mulatresse
- Walkowitz, Two Figures Seated
- Campigli, Woman with a Veil
- Eby, The Storm
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14. Charles Meryon (1821-1868) Le Petit Pont, Paris |
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Le Petit Pont, Paris
Etching, 1850, 259 x 192 mm., Delteil/Wright 24 iii/vii; from Eaux-Fortes sur Paris. A superb impression of an early state in black ink on greenish laid paper with good margins, the most desirable format for a Meryon etching. The image, one of Meryon's masterpieces, shows the towers of Notre Dame rising above the quai-side houses and the little bridge. The scene is completely interpretive; there is no angle from which it would appear that way in actuality, for the towers are made much higher above the houses than they actually are and the facades of the houses have a dramatic sweep and curvature that contemporary photographs show was not the case. The whole work is an image from Meryon's imagination.
