Old House in Bourges: "La Maison du Musicien"

1852

Medium	pencil on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 10 3/8 x 5 13/16 in. (26.4 x 14.8 cm)
Object Number	1955.1854
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Charles Meryon, Old House in Bourges: "La Maison du Musicien", 1852, pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1854

Select Bibliography

London: Burlington Fine Arts Club.. Exhibition of a Selection from the Work of Charles Meryon.. 1879.. 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. W. A. Bradley.. "Some Meryon Drawings in the MacGeorge Collection.". Print Collector's Quarterly, 7.. (1917).. Roger Collins.. Charles Meryon: A Life.. Devizes (England): Garton & Co.. 1999.. Lo?s Delteil and Harold J. L. Wright.. Catalogue raisonné of the etchings of Charles Meryon.. New York: W. P. Truesdell.. 1924.. 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

Jules Niel (according to artist's inscription); J. J. Heywood; B. B. MacGeorge, Glasgow (L. 394 on reverse; collection brought to United States by Colnaghi in 1916, according to Lugt);* 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.