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Anthropomorphic Cloud Studies (Second Version)

Charles Meryon

French, 1821–1868

Anthropomorphic Cloud Studies (Second Version)

1831–1868

Medium pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions Overall: 3 7/16 x 7 15/16 in. (8.7 x 20.2 cm)
Object Number 1955.1702
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Charles Meryon, Anthropomorphic Cloud Studies (Second Version), 1831–1868, pencil on tracing paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1702

Select Bibliography

New York: Knoedler and Co.. Etchings and Drawings by Charles Meryon from the B. B. MacGeorge Collection.. 1917.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art.. Charles Meryon, Prints and Drawings. Sept. 29-Oct. 27, 1974; Yale University Art Gallery, Nov. 21, 1974-Jan. 19, 1975; St. Louis Art Museum, Feb. 14-April 6, 1975. Cat. by James D. Burke. Frankfurt-am-Main: Städelsches Kunstinstitut.. Charles Meryon, Paris um 1850, Zeichnungen und Radierungen. Oct. 23, 1975-Jan. 4, 1976; Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Jan. 30-March 14, 1976. Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art.. View of Paris and Other Scenes, Prints by Charles Meryon (1821-1866). Jan. 22-April 17, 1994. Richard Wollheim.. Painting as an Art.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1987.. Norman Bryson, Michael Ann Holly, Keith Moxey, ed.. Visual Theory: Painting and Interpretation.. [London?]: Polity Press.. [1990?].. Kendall, Richard. Degas Landscapes. London: Yale University Press. 1994. 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

Philippe Burty (L. 2071);* J. J. Heywood (according to Knoedler invoice); B. B. MacGeorge (L. 394 on reverse); Knoedler, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1917). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.

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