A Chimera of Notre Dame, Paris

1853

Medium	pencil on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 8 1/8 x 4 13/16 in. (20.7 x 12.3 cm)
Object Number	1955.1857
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Charles Meryon, A Chimera of Notre Dame, Paris, 1853, pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1857

Select Bibliography

New York: The Grolier Club.. Etchings and Drawings by Charles Méryon.. 1898.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Bouvenne, Aglaüs. Notes et souvenirs sur Charles Meryon, son tombeau au cimetiàre de Charenton Saint Maurice. Paris: Charavay Frères. 1883. Goesta Ecke.. Charles Meryon (Meister der graphik, 11).. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann.. 1923. Geffroy, Gustave. Charles Meryon. Paris: H. Floury. 1926. Roger Collins.. Charles Meryon: A Life.. Devizes (England): Garton & Co.. 1999.. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

Howard Mansfield (L. 1342, on reverse);* H.C.M. {probably Helen Coolidge Mansfield (Mrs. Howard Mansfield)}; M. A. McDonald, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1942). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.