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Views of Bourges and other miscellaneous prints

Title: Views of Bourges and other miscellaneous prints [graphic] / C. Meryon.
Author: Méryon, Charles, 1821-1868.
Publication: 1851-1860.

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Description

11 prints : etching, drypoint; 23 x 25.7 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Architectural prints, some reproductive prints after Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, Eugéne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Polyclés Langlois and Jacques-Phillipe le Bas, views of Athens, Bourges, Chenonceaux and Pierrefonds and other architectural structures and details including apses, castles, church buildings, columns, convents, doorways, monasteries, ruins and windows. Other subjects include flageolets, medieval costumes and soldiers. One print depicts a map of the battle positions of Russian and Turkish fleets at Sinope in 1853. Some prints published in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, L'Inventaire des meubles...suivi d'une notice sur le château de Chenonceau by Prince Augustin Galitzin, 1856 and Athènes aux XVe, XVIe, et XVIIe siècles by Count Léon de Laborde, 1854.

Subject

Genre/Form

Etchings – French – 19th century.
Reproductive prints – French – 19th century.
Watercolors – French – 19th century.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
One print includes watercolor.
The states are listed according to Harold Wright's updated edition of Loys Delteil, Catalogue raisonné of the etchings of Charles Meryon. Other catalogs list states differently.
Meryon intended the views of Bourges to form an album that would parallel the Paris set, according to James D. Burke, Charles Meryon Prints & Drawings, although such an album was never published.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Cite As (note)

S. P. Avery Collection.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Holdings checked in departmental copy of Loys Delteil and Harold Wright, Catalogue raisonné of Charles Meryon.

Provenance (note)

Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900. DW55 and DW58 bear collector's mark of Phillipe Burty (Lugt 413) DW61 bears collector's mark of A. Wasset (Lugt 200)

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.

Contents

DW54. Porte d'un ancien couvent, rue Mirabeau, à Bourges (3rd state) -- DW55. La rue des Toiles, à Bourges (4th state, on greenish paper) -- DW55. La rue des Toiles, à Bourges (7th state) -- DW56. Ancienne habitation à Bourges (5th state) -- DW58. Château de Chenonceau (3rd state) -- DW59. Ruines du château de Pierrefonds (2nd state) -- DW60. Chevet de St. Martin-sur-Renelle (2nd state) -- DW60. Chevet de St. Martin-sur-Renelle (3rd state) -- DW61. Entrée du couvent des capucins francais à Athénes (2nd state) -- DW61. Entrée du couvent des capucins francais à Athénes (3rd state) -- DW62. Plan du combat de Sinope (2nd state)

Call Number

MEZAC

OCLC

NYPG97-F640

Author

Méryon, Charles, 1821-1868.

Title

Views of Bourges and other miscellaneous prints [graphic] / C. Meryon.

Imprint

1851-1860.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Print Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Cite As:

S. P. Avery Collection.

Linking Entry

Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.

Indexes

Holdings checked in departmental copy of Loys Delteil and Harold Wright, Catalogue raisonné of Charles Meryon.

Provenance

Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900. DW55 and DW58 bear collector's mark of Phillipe Burty (Lugt 413) DW61 bears collector's mark of A. Wasset (Lugt 200)

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Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584.

Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Collector

Le Bas, Jacques-Philippe, 1707-1783.

Delâtre, Auguste, 1822-1907. Printer

Langlois, Polyclès, 1814-1872.

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879.

S.P. Avery Collection.

Research Call Number

MEZAC

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