Artworks · Charles Méryon

Tourelle, Rue de l'École de Médecine, 22, Paris (House with a Turret, No. 22, Street of the School of Medecine, Paris)

1861 · etching and drypoint on laid paper

image: 18 × 10.1 cm (7 1/16 × 4 in.) plate: 21.1 × 12.8 cm (8 5/16 × 5 1/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 32.8 × 21.4 cm (12 15/16 × 8 7/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Evariste Boulay-Paty; A Poet (From a Bronze by David d'Angers)

1861 · etching on laid paper

image: 7.1 × 7.3 cm (2 13/16 × 2 7/8 in.) plate: 10.5 × 10.5 cm (4 1/8 × 4 1/8 in.) sheet (irreg.): 14.5 × 18.5 cm (5 11/16 × 7 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

View of Part of the City of Paris toward the Close of the XVII Century

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Mage: 12.7 × 28.8 cm (5 × 11 3/8 in.); Plate: 15.3 × 32.1 cm (6 1/16 × 12 11/16 in.); Sheet: 21.6 × 41 cm (8 9/16 × 16 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of the Poet Evariste Boulay-Paty

1861 · Etching with burnishing in warm black on grayish ivory laid chine, hinged to ivory laid paper

Image: 10.6 × 10.6 cm (4 3/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Plate: 10.6 × 10.6 cm (4 3/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Primary support: 14 × 17.6 cm (5 9/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 23.6 × 31.8 cm (9 5/16 × 12 9/16 in.)

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Portrait of François Viète

1861 · Etching with faint burnishing and scraping on grayish ivory laid paper

Image: 18.3 × 9 cm (7 1/4 × 3 9/16 in.); Sheet: 19.2 × 10.1 cm (7 9/16 × 4 in.)

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The Grand Châtelet, Paris, c. 1780, after an earlier drawing

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Image: 17.5 × 24.9 cm (6 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.); Plate: 23.4 × 30 cm (9 1/4 × 11 13/16 in.); Sheet: 34.1 × 45 cm (13 7/16 × 17 3/4 in.)

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House with a Turret, No 22, rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, Paris (called the Turret of Marat)

1861 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 20.9 × 13 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/8 in.); Plate: 21.1 × 13 cm (8 5/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 31 × 22 cm (12 1/4 × 8 11/16 in.)

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Portrait of Pierre Nivelle, Bishop of Luçon

1861 · Etching, from a tin plate, in warm black with some letters printed à la poupée in red ink, on grayish ivory laid paper

Image: 15.8 × 10.8 cm (6 1/4 × 4 5/16 in.); Plate: 15.8 × 10.8 cm (6 1/4 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 21.6 × 16.5 cm (8 9/16 × 6 1/2 in.)

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Portrait of Jean Besly, Historian

1861 · Etching on grayish ivory laid chine

Image: 11.2 × 8.9 cm (4 7/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Plate: 14.5 × 12.1 cm (5 3/4 × 4 13/16 in.); Sheet: 16.6 × 13.5 cm (6 9/16 × 5 3/8 in.)

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Portrait of Louis Jacques Marie Bizeul, the Breton Archaeologist

1861 · Etching with engraving and burnishing on grayish ivory laid paper

Image: 16.9 × 11.8 cm (6 11/16 × 4 11/16 in.); Plate: 16.9 × 11.8 cm (6 11/16 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 21.7 × 15.5 cm (8 9/16 × 6 1/8 in.)

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Portrait of Armand Guéraud of Nantes, Printer and Man of Letters

1861 · Etching, from tin plate, on grayish ivory laid chine, hinged to ivory laid paper

Image: 5.8 × 4.7 cm (2 5/16 × 1 7/8 in.); Plate: 5.8 × 4.7 cm (2 5/16 × 1 7/8 in.); Primary support: 9.1 × 7.4 cm (3 5/8 × 2 15/16 in.); Secondary support: 37.1 × 30.2 cm (14 5/8 × 11 15/16 in.)

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Portrait of Th. Agrippa d'Aubigné

1861 · Etching in warm black from tin plate on grayish-ivory laid chine

Image: 12.2 × 10.2 cm (4 13/16 × 4 1/16 in.); Plate: 12.3 × 10.3 cm (4 7/8 × 4 1/16 in.); Sheet: 18.6 × 15.9 cm (7 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.)

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Portrait of François Viète

1861 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 17.9 × 8.9 cm (7 1/16 × 3 9/16 in.); Plate: 19.1 × 11 cm (7 9/16 × 4 3/8 in.); Sheet: 34 × 22.6 cm (13 7/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

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Portrait of René de Laudonnière Sablais (de Burdigale)

1861 · Etching and drypoint with foul-biting on grayish-ivory laid chine

Image, including stray marks: 15.2 × 10.7 cm (6 × 4 1/4 in.); Plate: 15.4 × 10.9 cm (6 1/8 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 17.1 × 15.7 cm (6 3/4 × 6 3/16 in.)

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View of Part of the City of Paris toward the Close of the XVII Century

1861 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 13.2 × 29.2 cm (5 1/4 × 11 1/2 in.); Plate: 15.3 × 32.7 cm (6 1/16 × 12 7/8 in.); Sheet: 24.6 × 40.7 cm (9 11/16 × 16 1/16 in.)

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View of Part of the City of Paris toward the Close of the XVII Century

1861 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 13.3 × 29.1 cm (5 1/4 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet: 20.7 × 32.7 cm (8 3/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

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Portrait of Th. Agrippa d'Aubigné

1861 · Etching, from a tin plate on ivory chine, laid down on ivory wove paper

Image: 14.4 × 11 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/8 in.); Plate: 15.8 × 14.2 cm (6 1/4 × 5 5/8 in.); Primary support: 15.6 × 11.8 cm (6 3/16 × 4 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 44.2 × 30.3 cm (17 7/16 × 11 15/16 in.)

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Portrait of René de Laudonnière Sablais (de Burdigale)

1861 · Etching and drypoint with burnishing and scraping on ivory laid paper

Image: 13.5 × 9.6 cm (5 3/8 × 3 13/16 in.); Plate: 15.3 × 10.8 cm (6 1/16 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 × 22.1 cm (12 1/16 × 8 3/4 in.)

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Portrait of Armand Guéraud of Nantes, Printer and Man of Letters

1861 · Etching, from a tin plate, on grayish ivory laid chine, laid down on ivory card

Image: 5.8 × 4.7 cm (2 5/16 × 1 7/8 in.); Plate: 5.8 × 4.7 cm (2 5/16 × 1 7/8 in.); Primary support: 10.4 × 8.6 cm (4 1/8 × 3 7/16 in.); Secondary support: 15.5 × 12.6 cm (6 1/8 × 5 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of the Poet Evariste Boulay-Paty

1861 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 10.7 × 10.7 cm (4 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.); Plate: 10.7 × 10.7 cm (4 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.); Sheet: 31.9 × 19.8 cm (12 9/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

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Portrait of Louis Jacques Marie Bizeul, the Breton Archaeologist

1861 · Etching with engraving on ivory chine, laid down on ivory laid paper

Image: 12.1 × 10.5 cm (4 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.); Plate: 16.7 × 11.8 cm (6 5/8 × 4 11/16 in.); Primary support: 16.1 × 11.7 cm (6 3/8 × 4 5/8 in.); Secondary support: 32.2 × 24.9 cm (12 11/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

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The Grand Châtelet, Paris, c. 1780, after an earlier drawing

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Image: 17.6 × 25 cm (6 15/16 × 9 7/8 in.); Plate: 23.3 × 29.8 cm (9 3/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 33.8 × 45.4 cm (13 5/16 × 17 7/8 in.)

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The Grand Châtelet, Paris, c. 1780, after an earlier drawing

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Image: 17.7 × 25 cm (7 × 9 7/8 in.); Plate: 23.5 × 30.1 cm (9 5/16 × 11 7/8 in.); Sheet: 33.7 × 44.5 cm (13 5/16 × 17 9/16 in.)

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View of Part of the City of Paris toward the Close of the XVII Century

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Image: 13.2 × 29.8 cm (5 1/4 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet, folded: 31.5 × 44.4 cm (12 7/16 × 17 1/2 in.)

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House with a Turret, No 22, rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, Paris (called the Turret of Marat)

1861 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 17.9 × 10.2 cm (7 1/16 × 4 1/16 in.); Plate: 21.1 × 13.2 cm (8 5/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Sheet: 34.5 × 24 cm (13 5/8 × 9 1/2 in.)

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Portrait of François Viète

1861 · Graphite and ink on ivory wove tissue laid down on ivory wove board

Primary support: 14.3 × 10.9 cm (5 11/16 × 4 5/16 in.); Secondary support: 14.7 × 11.3 cm (5 13/16 × 4 1/2 in.)

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Portrait of François Viète

1861 · Etching with burnishing on grayish ivory laid chine

Image: 20.9 × 13.9 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.); Plate: 20.9 × 13.9 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.); Sheet: 24 × 15.6 cm (9 1/2 × 6 3/16 in.)

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House with a Turret, No 22, rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, Paris (called the Turret of Marat)

1861 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 21.1 × 13.1 cm (8 5/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Plate: 21.1 × 13.1 cm (8 5/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Sheet: 32.7 × 22.3 cm (12 7/8 × 8 13/16 in.)

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House with a Turret, No 22, rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, Paris (called the Turret of Marat)

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Image: 21.1 × 13.1 cm (8 5/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Plate: 21.1 × 13.1 cm (8 5/16 × 5 3/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 × 33.4 cm (17 1/2 × 13 3/16 in.)

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Portrait of René de Laudonnière Sablais (de Burdigale)

1861 · Etching and drypoint with burnishing on grayish ivory laid chine, tipped onto ivory wove Japanese paper

Image: 15.3 × 10.7 cm (6 1/16 × 4 1/4 in.); Primary support: 15.7 × 11 cm (6 3/16 × 4 3/8 in.); Secondary support: 17.2 × 13.2 cm (6 13/16 × 5 1/4 in.)

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Portrait of Pierre Nivelle, Bishop of Luçon

1861 · Etching, from a tin plate, with burnishing and foul-biting on grayish ivory laid paper

Image: 16 × 10.7 cm (6 5/16 × 4 1/4 in.); Plate: 16 × 10.7 cm (6 5/16 × 4 1/4 in.); Sheet: 16.8 × 15.8 cm (6 5/8 × 6 1/4 in.)

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The Grand Châtelet, Paris, c. 1780, after an earlier drawing

1861 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Image: 23.4 × 30 cm (9 1/4 × 11 13/16 in.); Plate: 23.4 × 30 cm (9 1/4 × 11 13/16 in.); Sheet: 34.1 × 42.5 cm (13 7/16 × 16 3/4 in.)

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Ancienne habitation à Bourges, dite "La Maison du Musicien" (An Old House at Bourges, Sometimes Called the "Musician's House")

1860 · etching with drypoint on green laid paper

image: 23 × 13.5 cm (9 1/16 × 5 5/16 in.) plate: 24.3 × 13.9 cm (9 9/16 × 5 1/2 in.) sheet: 28.5 × 19 cm (11 1/4 × 7 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Greniers indigenes et habitations a Akaroa, presqu'Ile de Banks

1860 · graphite on green wove paper

overall: 18.6 x 30.2 cm (7 5/16 x 11 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

La Rue Pirouette aux halles, Paris (Pirouette Street, Near the Markets, Paris)

1860 · etching and drypoint on wove paper

image: 12.8 × 9.8 cm (5 1/16 × 3 7/8 in.) plate: 15.5 × 11.6 cm (6 1/8 × 4 9/16 in.) sheet: 31.6 × 22.4 cm (12 7/16 × 8 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Ancienne habitation à Bourges, dite "La Maison du Musicien" (An Old House at Bourges, Sometimes Called the "Musician's House")

1860 · etching with graphite additions on wove Japanese paper

plate: 22.8 × 13.4 cm (9 × 5 1/4 in.) sheet: 29.1 × 17.6 cm (11 7/16 × 6 15/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Présentation du Valère Maxime au Rois Louis XI (The Printer Valerius Maximus Being Presented to King Louis XI)

1860 · etching and drypoint on laid paper

image: 14.5 × 17 cm (5 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.) plate: 17.3 × 19.9 cm (6 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 22 × 31.2 cm (8 11/16 × 12 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Le malingre cryptogame (The Sickly Cryptogam)

1860 · etching on laid paper

plate: 7.1 × 5.9 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.) sheet: 14.1 × 12.2 cm (5 9/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Footbridge Temporarily Replacing the Pont-au-Change, Paris, After the Fire of 1621

1860 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 11.8 × 22.9 cm (4 11/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Plate: 11.8 × 22.9 cm (4 11/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Sheet: 21.7 × 33.6 cm (8 9/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Apse of the Church of St Martin-sur-Renelle, Paris

1860 · Etching on ivory laid paper

Image: 15.3 × 10.9 cm (6 1/16 × 4 5/16 in.); Plate: 18.7 × 14.8 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/8 in.); Sheet: 22.9 × 15.9 cm (9 1/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

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An Old House at Bourges

1860 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Image: 23 × 13.3 cm (9 1/16 × 5 1/4 in.); Plate: 24.2 × 13.7 cm (9 9/16 × 5 7/16 in.); Sheet: 35 × 22.6 cm (13 13/16 × 8 15/16 in.)

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Rue Pirouette aux Halles, Paris

1860 · Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper

Image, including stray marks: 15.3 × 11.3 cm (6 1/16 × 4 1/2 in.); Plate: 15.6 × 11.6 cm (6 3/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Sheet: 39 × 30 cm (15 3/8 × 11 13/16 in.)

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The Sickly Cryptogam

1860 · Etching, with plate tone, in black ink on ivory laid paper, printing à la poupée in red ink

Image: 7 × 5.9 cm (2 13/16 × 2 3/8 in.); Plate: 7 × 5.9 cm (2 13/16 × 2 3/8 in.); Sheet: 10.9 × 9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 9/16 in.)

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The Sickly Cryptogam

1860 · Etching with plate tone on tan wove paper

Image: 7 × 5.8 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.); Plate: 7 × 5.8 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.); Sheet: 10.7 × 8.8 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)

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Head of a New Holland Dog

1860 · Etching with engraving on grayish ivory chine, laid down on ivory laid paper

Image: 5.3 × 7.8 cm (2 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.); Plate: 5.3 × 7.8 cm (2 1/8 × 3 1/8 in.); Primary support: 5.9 × 8 cm (2 3/8 × 3 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 17.9 × 24.7 cm (7 1/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

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The Printer Valère Maxime being Presented to King Louis XI

1860 · Etching and drypoint on ivory Japanese paper

Image: 14.2 × 17.2 cm (5 5/8 × 6 13/16 in.); Plate: 17.3 × 20.1 cm (6 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 19.8 × 27.9 cm (7 13/16 × 11 in.)

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Rue Pirouette aux Halles, Paris

1860 · Etching and drypoint in warm black on ivory laid paper

Image, including stray marks: 15.4 × 10 cm (6 1/8 × 3 15/16 in.); Plate: 15.7 × 11.6 cm (6 3/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Sheet: 19.5 × 15.1 cm (7 11/16 × 6 in.)

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The Printer Valère Maxime being Presented to King Louis XI

1860 · Etching and drypoint on grayish ivory laid paper

Image: 14.7 × 17.2 cm (5 13/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Plate: 17.2 × 20 cm (6 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25 × 32.3 cm (9 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)

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