Charles Meryon (1821-1868)
House with a Turret, Weavers' Street, Paris (Tourelle, rue de la Tixéranderie), 1852
Etching on Japan paper
246 x 131 mm. (9 11/16 x 5 3/16 inches)
Delteil/Wright 29 first state (of five), this impression cited; Schneiderman 24 first state (of five)
An extraordinary impression of the very first state, before letters and before the initials CM, on a very beautiful and well-preserved buff-colored Japan paper. Of the highest rarity. Schneiderman lists...
An extraordinary impression of the very first state, before letters and before the initials CM, on a very beautiful and well-preserved buff-colored Japan paper. Of the highest rarity. Schneiderman lists only 5 impressions of the first state, all in public institutions. F.S. Haden, the first owner of this proof, acquired prints directly from Meryon.
Provenance
Francis Seymour Haden, London and Bramdean near Alresford [Lugt 1227]
Wunderlich Gallery, Catalogue of Meryon’s Etchings formely owned by Sir FS Haden, New York, January 1901, no. 13a
Gottfried Eissler, Vienna [Lugt 805b]
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London (their stock nos. C.7511, C.8265, and C.28660)
M. Knoedler & Co., New York (their stock no. MK 34016)