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Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
  1. Master MR, Christ on the Cross
  2. Dürer, St. Bartholomew
  3. Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
  4. Raimondi, Philosophy
  5. Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
  6. Beham, Job Conversing
  7. Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
  8. Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
  9. Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
  10. Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
  11. Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
  12. Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
  13. Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
  14. Claesz, St. Peter Seated
  15. Treu, Noble Dancers
  16. Master FP, Hercules Killing
  17. Brun, February
  18. Solis, Arithmetria
  19. de Bruyn, The Circumcision
  20. Sadeler, Virgin and Child
  21. Goltzius, A Young Man
  22. Matham, The Planets
  23. Brizio, Extensive Landscape
  24. van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
  25. van de Velde, Backgammon
  26. van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
  27. van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
  28. Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
  29. Hollar, Woman with Headdress
  30. Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
  31. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  32. Stoop, A Grazing Horse
  33. Fyt, Set of Animals
  34. Bega, The Three Drinkers
  35. Anonymous, Landscape
  36. Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
  37. Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
  38. Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
  39. van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
  40. Cossin, Ornament Design
  41. Sirani, St. Eustace
  42. Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
  43. Daullé, La Muse Clio
  44. Tiepolo, The Holy Family
  45. MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
  46. Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
  47. Denon, Village Scene
  48. Charlet, Les Français
  49. Pieraccini, Holy Family
  50. Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
  51. Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
  52. Daubigny, Lever de Lune
  53. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  54. Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
  55. Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
  56. Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
  57. Buhot, Frontispice
  58. Forain, La Rencontre
  59. Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
  60. Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme

53. Charles Meryon
(1821-1868)
Le Petit Pont

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Meryon, Le Petit Pont

Le Petit Pont

Other Images:

Etching, 1850, from Eaux-Fortes sur Paris, 260 x 190 mm., Delteil/Wright 24 iv/vii, Schneiderman 20 v/x. A superb proof before letters, printed in brown-black ink on cream laid paper with full margins, bright and luminous in appearance; very pale time toning in the area of the old mat opening; the upper right corner of the sheet, far from the platemark, torn and reattached. The image, one of Meryon's masterpieces, shows the towers of Notre Dame rising above the quai-side houses and the little bridge. The scene is completely interpretive; there is no single viewpoint from which it would appear that way in actuality, for the towers are made much higher above the houses and the facades of the houses have a dramatic sweep and curvature that contemporary photographs show was not the case. The whole work is an image from deep in Meryon's psyche, not least the shadow forming a sphinx’s head on the wall to the left of the bridge.

Provenance:
Alfred Lebrun (Lugt 140). Lebrun (1830-1898 or 99) was an employee of the Rothschild Bank in Paris. More interestingly, he was friends with the artists Bonvin, Cals and Jongkind and with the wealthy amateur and collector Alfred Sensier. For the latter’s study of Jean-François Millet, Lebrun compiled a full catalog of Millet’s prints, based on his own superb and complete collection – which was later sold to the New York dealer Frederick Keppel. But the majority of his collection, paintings and prints of the nineteenth century, were sold at auction only after his death.

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