Charles Meryon
(France 1821–1868)
- Title
- The morgue, Paris
- Alternative title:
- La morgue, Paris
- Year
- 1854
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Edition
- iv of 7 states
- Dimensions
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23.2 x 20.5cm platemark; 29.5 x 24.8cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l., [incised plate] "Charles Meryon... mdcccliv".
- Credit
- Purchased 1938
- Accession number
- 6756
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Meryon depicted the architecture of old Paris with supreme accuracy and clarity of detail, often imparting to his views an aura of strangeness and unreality. The scene features not only buildings of interest to Meryon but also a miniature melodrama. The lower left of the image shows a body which has recently been pulled from the river and is being taken to the mortuary. A crowd watches from the wall.
- Bibliography (9)
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Richard Schneiderman (Author), The catalogue raisonné of the prints of Charles Meryon, London, 1990, 87, 88 (illus.), 89 (illus.), 90 (illus.).. cat.no. 42. Illustration on pg. 88 is the second state, illustration on pg. 89 is the fourth state, illustration on pg. 90 is the sixth state.
Renée Porter (Australia) (Author), Meryon, Bracquemond & the 19th Century Etching Renaissance, Domain, 1998.
'A Portrait of the Artist as a critic' by Bruce James, pg. 12s., The Sydney Morning Herald 22 Aug 1998, 22 Aug 1998, 12s. Appearing in the Spectrum section.
Malcolm C Salaman (England, b.1855, d.1940) (Author), The Master: Charles Meryon, London, 1927, 7, 8, illus.. plate no. 10
Geoffrey Holme (England, b.1887, d.1954) (Editor), The etchings of Charles Meryon, London, 1921, 17, illus.. plate no. 20
Hugh Stokes (Editor), The master etchers: Charles Meryon, London, illus.. plate no. 23
Nicholas Draffin (Australia, b.1943, d.1995) (Curator), The bitten image: European etchings from the collection, Domain, 1980, 11.
Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 83 (illus.).
Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Editor), Jan Meek (Australia) (Editor), Portrait of a Gallery, Sydney, 1984, 116 (illus.).
- Exhibition history (3)
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The Bitten Image: European etchings from the collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 19 Jul 1980–14 Sep 1980.
Meryon, Bracquemond & the 19th Century etching Renaissance, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 18 Jun 1998–02 Aug 1998.
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009.
