Studies for "View of San Francisco": Figure of Abundance and Architectural Details

c. 1856

Medium	pencil on tracing paper
Dimensions	Overall: 5 3/8 x 5 1/4 in. (13.7 x 13.4 cm)
Object Number	1955.1531
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Charles Meryon, Studies for "View of San Francisco": Figure of Abundance and Architectural Details, c. 1856, pencil on tracing paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1531

Select Bibliography

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. New York: The Grolier Club.. Etchings and Drawings by Charles Méryon.. 1898.. 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. Lo?s Delteil and Harold J. L. Wright.. Catalogue raisonné of the etchings of Charles Meryon.. New York: W. P. Truesdell.. 1924..

Provenance

B. B. MacGeorge (L. 394);* 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.