Study for "Le Stryge": The Chimera and the Tower of Saint Jacques

before 1853

Medium	pencil on paper
Dimensions	Overall: 7 13/16 x 5 7/8 in. (19.9 x 15 cm)
Object Number	1955.1834
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Charles Meryon, Study for "Le Stryge": The Chimera and the Tower of Saint Jacques, before 1853, pencil on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1834

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. W. A. Bradley.. "Some Meryon Drawings in the MacGeorge Collection.". Print Collector's Quarterly, 7.. (1917).. Geffroy, Gustave. Charles Meryon. Paris: H. Floury. 1926. Loys Delteil.. Meryon.. Paris: Les Editions Reider.. 1927.. Margaret E. Stucki.. The Revolutionary Mission of Modern Art: or CRUD.. Bird's Meadow Publishing.. 1973.. Daniel M. Mendelowitz.. Drawing: A Study Guide.. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.. 1975.. Irene M. de Groot.. Charles Meryon, 1821-1868, Esteen van Parijs in het Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam & 's-Gravenhage. Gary Schwartz.. 1991.. Stefanie Heraeus.. Traumvorstellung und Bildidee. Surreale Strategian in der fronzosischen Graphik des 19. Jahrhunderts.. Berlin:Reimer.. 1998.. Delteil, Loys. Le peintre-graveur illustré (XIXe et XXe siècles). 32 volumes. Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1906-30. 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 Knoedler invoice); H. Destailleur (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.