Word: meryon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the water-colors, which are hung in the print room, there are also prints by nineteenth century artists--Turner, Meryon, Seymour Haden, and Whistler, and the etching by Benson owned by the Museum...
...French school is represented by Fragonard, Meryon, Berthe Morison, Renoir Legros, lithographs by Ingres and Dannier, and potraits by Nanteuil. There is a characteristic etching by Goya, the Spaniard, and among the Italians there is a specimen of Canaletto...
...Meryon's work was done in the period when Houssman, under the direction of Louis Napoleon, was demolishing old Paris in the course of laying out the Paris of today...
There is also a very early print of St. Etienne du Mont which is very brilliant. This print like many others in the collection, has passed through some of the greatest and most important collections of Meryon's etchings. The most interesting etching; however, is the earlier of two different prints of L'Abside de Notre Dame, which is the actual print given by Meryon to his teacher Blery, and bears Mryon's presentation in his own handwriting. The collection is a most valuable one, and a very important addition to the etchings already in the possession of the museum...
...etchings were drawn by Charles Meryon, the most original etcher of the mid-nineteenth century, and one of the greatest architectural etchers of all times. Printed in brownish and often on green paper, which Meryon himself prepared, the etchings are unusually brilliant. There are 20 eachings in the collection given by Mr. Marvin, and of these there are two and even four impressions from a plate in its different stages of development...