The Last Time I Saw Paris
  1. Callot, Vue du Pont Neuf, Paris
  2. Le Clerc, View of a Chateau and Horse Fair
  3. Janinet, Vue Intérieure de L’Eglise
  4. Pradelle, Sunset in Paris
  5. Meryon, Le Stryge
  6. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  7. Meryon, Tourelle de la Rue de la Tixéranderie
  8. Meryon, Collège Henri IV ou Lycée Napoléon
  9. Meryon, Le Pont Neuf
  10. Lalanne, Rue des Marmousets (Vieux Paris)
  11. Lalanne, Démolitions pour le Percement du Boulevard St. Germain
  12. Lalanne, Batterie de Montmartre
  13. Brouet, Le Rémouleur (The Knife Grinder)
  14. Brouet, Le Rendez-vous des Chiffoniers
  15. Brouet, Le Luthier
  16. Brouet, Fête du Trio Montmartrois, 17 Avril, 1907
  17. Daubigny, Le Cèdre de Liban
  18. Daubigny, L’Amphithéatre du Jardin des Plantes
  19. Charlet, Au Jardin des Tuileries
  20. Ciceri, L’Hôtel de Ville in 1583
  21. Benoist, Le Petit Châtelet
  22. Bayalos, The Bastille in 1740
  23. Buhot, L’Hiver à Paris ou La Neige à Paris
  24. Buhot, La Fête Nationale au Boulevard Clichy
  25. Buhot, La Place des Martyrs et la Taverne du Bagne
  26. Buhot, Matinée d’Hiver sur les Quais
  27. Buhot, Le Retour des Artistes aux Champs-Elysées
  28. Boucherot, La Porte de Vanves
  29. Martial, Paris Incendié, La Lègion d’Honneur à Les Tuileries
  30. Lamour, Le Pont Notre-Dame
  31. Toulouse-Lautrec, Le Marchand de Marrons
  32. Toulouse-Lautrec, A la Gaieté Rochechouart: Nicolle
  33. Steinlen, Premier Petit Nocturne
  34. Steinlen, Amoureux sur un Banc
  35. Forain, Maison Close (Brothel)
  36. Forain, A la Bourse (At the Stock Exchange)
  37. Delcourt, Rue des Saules
  38. Lepère, La Rue de la Montagne Ste. Geneviève
  39. Lepère, Bal au Point du Jour
  40. Lepère, L’Abreuvoir au Pont Marie (2me planche)
  41. Lepère, Les Troubles au Quartier Latin
  42. Lepère, Tour Eiffel – Frontispice
  43. Lepère, Notre Dame, Vu du Quai de Montebello
  44. Doré, Escalier de l’Opéra à la Mi-Carême
  45. Zeising, Port d’Auteuil
  46. Gautier, La Rue St.-Julien-le-Pauvre
  47. Gautier, Pont de l’Archevêché
  48. Daumier, Saprelotte…Complet !...
  49. Béjot, Le Pont de Grenelle
  50. Béjot , Le Luxembourg
  51. Béjot, La Bastille (1st plate)
  52. Béjot, La Rue de Harlay
  53. Jouas, Gentilly – La Bièvre, du Pont de l’Avenue de la Republique
  54. Provost, Vue des Divans
  55. Bouchot, Le Concert Musard
  56. Rivière, Quai d’Austerlitz et Notre-Dame
  57. Whistler, Rue de la Rochefoucault
  58. Marin, St. Gervais from the Rue Grenier-sur-l’Eau
  59. Helleu, Mme Helleu Looking at the Watteau Drawings in the Louvre
  60. Carbonati, Pont de la Tournelle
  61. Heyman, Passerelle de l’Estacade, Paris
  62. Plowman, The Towers of Notre Dame
  63. MacLaughlan, Forge of the Carmelites
  64. Gottlob, Les Pierreuses
  65. Chahine, La Petite Fête aux Fortifications
  66. Grilade, Au Lapin Agile
  67. Heintzelman, Café Montmartrois
  68. Webster, Vieilles Maisons sur le Quai
  69. Herscher, Vue de la Tour de Dagobert
  70. Laboureur, La Cage
  71. Chandler, An Excavation, Paris
  72. Orlik, Treppenhaus am Quai Voltaire
  73. Scott, St. Nicolas-du-Chardonnet
  74. Bonnard, Place Clichy
  75. Delaunay, Seine Bridges
  76. Delaunay, The Steeple of Notre-Dame
  77. Delaunay, Biplane by the Ile de la Cité
  78. de Bruycker, L’Eglise St. Séverin, Paris
  79. Somm, Tête de Parisienne

8. Charles Meryon
(1821-1868)
Collège Henri IV ou Lycée Napoléon

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Meryon, Collège Henri IV ou Lycée Napoléon

Collège Henri IV ou Lycée Napoléon

Etching, 1863-4, 295 x 485 mm., Delteil/Wright 43 x/xi. A fine impression of the penultimate state (the plate was cancelled after the eleventh state), with the address of the printer Pierron, on Hallines laid paper with full, large margins. The view is said to be taken from the summit of the Panthéon, and Meryon, in a letter, meticulously described the bits of this or that building equally meticulously drawn in this or that corner or area of the print. But no view from the Panthéon (save Meryon’s) could have even imagined the immediate foreground of the print, totally out of scale with the rest of it, and filled with both dressed and naked people who seem to have dropped in from another continent. They walk, slide, bathe, wrestle, ride a horse, do acrobatics, sit and read, stand and carry, and dance. The Collège itself, somewhat refurbished, still exists in much the same form as Meryon saw it, and exercises much the same functions. A good deal of the background area, though, was changed with the building of the boulevards. Meryon signed the print with his monogram on the side of a building about two-thirds toward the right. He also put his initials, together with a cross, on a building in the far distant center, for that is the house in which he lived for years and where he etched the Eaux-Fortes sur Paris. Nearby, yet a third house is marked with the initials LN. They stand for Louise Neveu, a young girl with whom Meryon was infatuated. It is questionable if she even knew of his existence. So much content, so many stories in a single print!