LIST OF MERYON’S ETCHINGS

Besides the earliest full catalogue of Meryon’s etchings, that by P. Burty, translated into English by M. B. Huish (1879), which derives its value from Burty’s Memoir of Meryon and his notes on certain of the etchings, there are two catalogues of Meryon in general use, that written by the late Sir F. Wedmore (“Méryon and Méryon’s Paris,” 2nd ed., London, 1892) and the much more thorough catalogue by M. Loys Delteil (1907) which forms Tome II. of the series, “Le Peintre-Graveur illustré.” The British Museum collection is still arranged in Wedmore’s order, which has one practical advantage: it gives precedence to the important works, the etchings of Paris, and describes the other etchings as minor works after these. Thus the visitor, not an expert, who asks for Meryon’s etchings and receives the first volume, finds in it at once a number of the masterpieces. He can persevere, if he will, and see the minor works also; but, if he is more easily tired, he will at least have seen the Paris set while his eye is fresh, and will have spent none of his energy on the early experiments. On the other hand, Delteil is not pedantically chronological; he also places the Paris etchings early, by themselves, and groups the remainder, unlike Wedmore, by a subject arrangement, in various classes. By his more scientific description of states Delteil has superseded Wedmore, and is now invariably quoted in sale catalogues. How far even his catalogue is from being exhaustive is proved by the numerous additional states, chiefly based on the examination of the British Museum and Macgeorge collections, which Mr. H. J. L. Wright has described in the July number (1921) of the Print Collector’s Quarterly. It is understood that a new edition of Delteil is projected, containing a definitive numeration of the states, in which these and other corrections will be incorporated. The present list attempts no description of states. The titles are given in M. Delteil’s order, Wedmore’s numbers following in brackets, with the date of each etching and a summary indication of the number of states at present known to exist, quoted from Delteil except where the reference “see Wright” is given.

I. Early Experiments.

1(78)—La Sainte Face, after P. de Champaigne. 1849.

2(63)—La vache et l’ ânon, after P. J. de Loutherbourg. (2 states).[4]

3(67)—Soldat de profil, after Salvator Rosa. 1849 (2 states).

4(67a)—Soldat de face, after Salvator Rosa. 1849.

5(64)—Le mouton et les mouches, after K. du Jardin. 1849 (2 states).

6(65)—Les trois cochons couchés devant l’étable, after K. du Jardin. 1850 (2 states).

7(66)—Les deux chevaux, after K. du Jardin. 1850.

8(62)—La brebis et les deux agneaux, after A. van de Velde. 1850? (2 states).

9(68)—Le Pavillon de Mademoiselle et une partie du Louvre, after R. Zeeman. 1849 (3 states).

10(69)—Entrée du Faubourg Saint-Marceau, à Paris, after R. Zeeman. 1850 (2 states).

11(70)—Un moulin à eau près de Saint Denis, after R. Zeeman. 1850 (2 states).

12(71)—La rivière de Seine et l’angle du Mail, à Paris, after R. Zeeman. 1850 (2 states).

13(72)—Galiot de Jean de Vyl de Rotterdam, after R. Zeeman. 1850 (3 states).

14(73)—Bateaux de Harlem à Amsterdam, after R. Zeeman. 1850 (4 states).

15(75)—Pêcheurs de la Mer du Sud, after R. Zeeman. 1850 (2 states).

16(74)—Passagers de Calais à Flessingue, after R. Zeeman. 1850 (2 states).

II. Views of Paris.

17(1)—Titre des “Eaux-fortes sur Paris.” 1852.

18(2)—Dédicace à Reynier Nooms, dit Zeeman. 1854.

19(3)—Ancienne porte du Palais de Justice. 1854 (3 states).

20(4)—Qu’âme pure gémisse. 1854 (2 states).

21(5)—Armes symboliques delà Ville de Paris. 1854 (3 states)

22(6)—Fluctuat nec mergitur. 1854.

23(7)—Le Stryge. 1853 (8 states).

24(8)—Le Petit Pont. 1850 (7 states—see Wright).

25(9)—L’ Arche du Pont Notre-Dame. 1853 (7 states—see Wright).

26(10)—La Galerie Notre-Dame. 1853 (5 states).

27(11)—La rue des Mauvais Garçons. 1854 (3 states).

28(12)—La Tour de l’ Horloge. 1852 (10 states—see Wright).

29(13)—Tourelle de la rue de la Tixéranderie. 1852 (4 states—see Wright).

30(14)—Saint-Etienne-du-Mont. 1852 (8 states).

31(15)—La Pompe Notre-Dame. 1852 (9 states).

32(16)—La Petite Pompe. 1854. (2 states).

33(17)—Le Pont-Neuf. 1853 (10 states—see Wright).

34(18)—Le Pont-au-Change. 1854 (12 states—see Wright).

35(19)—L’ Espérance. 1854 (3 states—see Wright).

36(20)—La Morgue. 1854 (7 states).

37(21)—L’ Hôtellerie de la Mort. 1854.

38(22)—L’Abside de Notre-Dame de Paris. 1854 (8 states).

39(—)—O toi dégustateur. 1854 (2 states).

40(23)—Tombeau de Molière. 1854 (2 states).

41(24)—Tourelle de la rue de l’ Ecole-de-Médecine. 1861 (13 states—see Wright).

42(25)—Rue des Chantres. 1862 (5 states—see Wright).

43(58)—Collège Henri IV. 1864 (11 states—see Wright).

44(27)—Bain-froid Chevrier. 1864 (6 states).

45(26)—Le Ministère de la Marine. 1865 (6 states).

46(29)—Le Pont-Neuf et la Samaritaine de dessous la 1ʳᵉ arche du Pont-au-Change. 1855 (4 states).

47(28)—Le Pont-au-Change vers 1784, after Nicolle. 1855 (6 states—see Wright).

48(76)—La Salle des Pas-perdus 1855 (4 states).

49(30)—Rue Pirouette aux Halles. 1860 (6 states).

50(84)—Passerelle du Pont-au-Change après l’ incendie de 1621. 1860 (8 states—see Wright).

51(31)—Partie de la Cité vers la fin du XVIIᵉ siècle. 1861 (8 states).

52(85)—Le Grand Châtelet vers 1780. 1861 (3 states).

53(60)—L’Ancien Louvre, after R. Zeeman. 1866 (6 states).

III. Various Views.

54(33)—Porte d’un ancient Couvent, rue Mirebeau, à Bourges. 1851 (3 states—see Wright).

55(35)—Rue des Toiles à Bourges. 1853 (8 states—see Wright).

56(34)—Ancienne habitation à Bourges. 1860 (5 states).

57(77a)—Château de Chenonceau (1st plate). 1856.

58(77)—Château de Chenonceau (2nd plate). 1856 (3 states).

59(81)—Ruines du Château de Pierrefonds. 1858 (3 states—see Wright).

60(83)—Chevet de St.-Martin-sur-Renelle, after P. Langlois. 1860 (3 states).

61(32)—Entrée du Couvent des Capucins, à Athènes. 1854 (3 states).

62(79)—Plan du Combat de Sinope. 1853 (2 states).

63(46)—Couverture du voyage à la Nouvelle-Zélande. 1866 (8 states—see Wright).

64(36)—Le Pilote de Tonga. 1856 (2 states).

65(38)—Tête de Chien de la Nouvelle-Hollande. 1850 (2 states)

66(37)—Le Malingre Cryptogame. 1860 (4 states).

67(40)—Nouvelle-Calédonie. Grande case indigène. 1863 (5 states).

68(41)—Océanie, pêche aux palmes. 1863 (4 states).

69(42)—Presqu’ île de Banks. Pointe des Charbonniers, Akaroa. 1863 (7 states—see Wright).

70(39)—Greniers indigènes à Akaroa. 1865 (5 states—see Wright).

71(43)—Etat de la colonie française d’Akaroa. 1865 (5 states)

72(44)—La Chaumière du Colon. 1866 (3 states).

73(80)—San Francisco. 1856 (4 states).

74(45)—Prô-volant des Iles Mulgrave. 1866 (6 states—see Wright).

IV. Portraits.

74a(—)—Meryon assis devant son chevalet. 1849? (no proof exists).

75(—)—Eugène Bléry. 1849? (no proof known to exist).

76(—)—Edmond de Courtives. 1849?

77(86)—Casimir Le Conte. 1856(2 states).

78(87)—Evariste Boulay-Paty, after David d’Angers. 1861 (3 states).

79(88)—François Viète. 1861 (11 states—see Wright).

80(92)—René de Burdigale, after C. de Passe. 1861 (5 states—see Wright).

81(89)—Pierre Nivelle, after M. Lasne. 1861 (6 states).

82(91)—Jean Besly, after Jaspar Isac. 1861 (4 states).

83(93)—L. J.-Marie Bizeul. 1861 (5 states).

84(90)—Th. Agrippa d’ Aubigné, after J. Hébert. 1862 (4 states).

85(94)—Benjamin Fillon. 1862 (5 states).

86(95)—Armand Guéraud. 1862 (3 states—see Wright).

V. Frontispieces, Addresses, Rebuses, Miscellaneous Subjects.

87(47)—Adresse de Rochoux. 1856? (5 states—see Wright).

88(48a)—Vers à Eugène Bléry (small plate). 1854.

89(48)—Vers à Eugène Bléry (large plate). 1854 (2 states—see Wright).

90(—)—L’Attelage.

91(49)—La loi lunaire, 1st plate. 1856 (3 states—see Wright).

92(50)—La loi lunaire, 2nd plate. 1866 (6 states—see Wright).

93(51)—La loi solaire. 1855.

94(82)—Présentation du Valère Maxime au roi Louis XI. 1860 (6 states—see Wright).

95(54)—Projet d’encadrement pour le portrait d’Armand Guéraud. 1862 (10 states—see Wright; there is another, following Delteil’s 6th, still undescribed)

96(61)—Frontispice pour le catalogue de Th. de Leu. 1866.

97, 98(52, 53)—Projets de billets d’action (2 states—see Wright).

99(59)—Petit Prince Dito. 1864 (3 states—see Wright).

100(55)—Rébus: La Vendetta. 1863 (2 states).

101(57)—Rébus: Béranger. 1863 (4 states—see Wright).

102(56)—Rébus: Morny. 1866 (3 states).

PLATE 1. CHARLES MERYON. BY FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND. 9 × 5⁷/₈ in.

(From a proof in the possession of Campbell Dodgson, Esq., M.A., C.B.E.).

PLATE 2. TITRE DES EAUX-FORTES SUR PARIS. (D.17.) 6½ × 4¹⁵/₁₆ in.

PLATE 3. DÉDICACE À REYNIER NOOMS, DIT ZEEMAN. (D.18.) 6¹⁵/₁₆ × 2¾ in.

PLATE 4. ANCIENNE PORTE DU PALAIS DE JUSTICE. (D.19). THIRD STATE. 3⁷/₁₆ × 3³/₈ in.

PLATE 5. ARMES SYMBOLIQUES DE LA VILLE DE PARIS. (D.21.) THIRD STATE. 5³/₈ × 4³/₈ in.

PLATE 6. LE STRYGE. (D.23.) EIGHTH STATE. 6¾ × 5⅛ in.

PLATE 7. LE PETIT PONT. (D.24.) FIFTH STATE. 10¼ × 7½ in.

PLATE 8. L’ARCHE DU PONT NOTRE-DAME. (D.25.) THIRD STATE. 6 × 7¾ in.

PLATE 9. LA GALERIE NOTRE-DAME. (D.26.) THIRD STATE. 11⅛ × 6¹⁵/₁₆ in.

PLATE 10. LA RUE DES MAUVAIS GARÇONS (D.27.) THIRD STATE. 5 × 3⁷/₈ in.

PLATE 11. LA TOUR DE L’HORLOGE. (D.28.) THIRD STATE. 10⁵/₁₆ × 7¼ in.

PLATE 12. TOURELLE DE LA RUE DE LA TIXÉRANDERIE. (D.29.) SECOND STATE. 9¾ × 5³/₁₆ in.

PLATE 13. SAINT-ÉTIENNE-DU-MONT. (D.30.) FIFTH STATE. 9¾ × 5⅛ in.

PLATE 14. LA POMPE NOTRE-DAME. (D.31.) NINTH STATE. 6¾ × 9⁷/₈ in.

PLATE 15. LA PETITE POMPE. (D.32.) SECOND STATE. 4¼ x 3¼ in.

PLATE 16. LE PONT-NEUF. (D.33.) EIGHTH STATE. 7³/₁₆ × 7¼ in.

PLATE 17. LE PONT-AU-CHANGE. (D.84.) SECOND STATE. 6⅛ × 13¹/₁₆ in.

PLATE 18. LE PONT-AU-CHANGE. (D.34.) NINTH STATE. 6¼ × 13¹/₁₆ in.

PLATE 19. L’ESPÉRANCE. (D.35.) (VERS DESTINÉS À ACCOMPAGNER LE PONT-AU-CHANGE.) 2½ × 5in.

PLATE 20. LA MORGUE. (D. 36.) THIRD STATE. 9⅛ × 8⅛ in.

PLATE 21. L’HÔTELLERIE DE LA MORT. (D.37.) TWO PLATES EACH 4¾ × 1³/₈ in.

PLATE 22. L’ABSIDE DE NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS. (D.38.) FOURTH STATE. 6½ × 11¾ in.

PLATE 23. TOMBEAU DE MOLIÈRE. (D.40.) SECOND STATE. 2⁵/₈ × 2¾ in.

PLATE 24. CHARLES MERYON, 1858. BY LÉOPOLD FLAMENG. 8¾ × 10¾ in.

PLATE 25. TOURELLE DE LA RUE DE L’ÉCOLE-DE-MÉDECINE. (D.41.) SIXTH STATE. 8³/₈ × 5³/₁₆ in.

PLATE 26. TOURELLE DE LA RUE DE L’ÉCOLE-DE-MÉDECINE. (D.41) NINTH STATE. 8³/₈ × 5³/₁₆ in.

PLATE 27. RUE DES CHANTRES. (D.42.) FIRST STATE. 11¾ × 5⁷/₈ in.

PLATE 28. RUE DES CHANTRES. (D.42.) FOURTH STATE. 11¾ × 5⁷/₈ in.

PLATE 29. COLLÈGE HENRI IV. (D.48.) SIXTH STATE. 11⁵/₈ × 18⁷/₈ in.

PLATE 30. BAIN-FROID CHEVRIER. (D. 44.) FOURTH STATE. 5⅛ × 5⁵/₈ in.

PLATE 31. LE MINISTÈRE DE LA MARINE. (D. 45.) FIRST STATE. 6⁵/₈ × 5¾ in.

PLATE 32. LE MINISTÈRE DE LA MARINE. (D. 45.) FIFTH STATE. 6⁵/₈ × 5¾ in.

PLATE 33. LE PONT-NEUF ET LA SAMARITAINE (D. 46.) THIRD STATE. 5¹¹/₁₆ × 8 in.

PLATE 34. LE PONT-AU-CHANGE VERS 1784, D’APRÈS NICOLLE. (D. 47.) THIRD STATE. 5⁵/₁₆ × 9³/₈ in.

PLATE 36. LA SALLE DES PAS-PERDUS À L’ANCIEN PALAIS-DE-JUSTICE. (D. 48.) FOURTH STATE. 10⁵/₈ × 17⅛ in.

PLATE 36. RUE PIROUETTE AUX HALLES. (D. 49.) THIRD STATE. 6⅛ × 4⁹/₁₆ in.

PLATE 37. PARTIE DE LA CITÉ VERS LA FIN DU XVIIe SIÈCLE. (D. 51.) SEVENTH STATE. 6 × 12⁵/₈ in.

PLATE 38. L’ANCIEN LOUVRE, D’APRÈS UNE PEINTURE DE ZEEMAN. (D. 53.) FIFTH STATE. 6⁵/₈ × 10½ in.

PLATE 39. PORTE D’UN ANCIEN COUVENT À BOURGES. (D. 54.) SECOND STATE. 6⁵/₈ x 4¾ in.

PLATE 40. RUE DES TOILES À BOURGES. (D. 55.) FIFTH STATE. 8½ × 4¾ in.

PLATE 41. ANCIENNE HABITATION À BOURGES. (D. 56.) FOURTH STATE. 9⁵/₈ x 5⁷/₁₆ in.

PLATE 42. ENTRÉE DU COUVENT DES CAPUCINS À ATHÈNES. (D. 61.) THIRD STATE. 7⁵/₈ × 5 in.

PLATE 43. NOUVELLE-CALÉDONIE. GRANDE CASE INDIGÈNE SUR LE CHEMIN DE BALLADE À POEPO. (D. 67.) FOURTH STATE. 5⁵/₈ × 9¾ in.

PLATE 44. OCÉANIE, PECHE AUX PALMES. (D. 68.) FOURTH STATE. 6¼ × 13¼ in.

PLATE 45. LA CHAUMIÈRE DU COLON. (D. 72.) THIRD STATE. 3⅛ × 3 in.

PLATE 46. PRÔ-VOLANT DES ÎLES MULGRAVE. (D. 74.) FIFTH STATE. 5¾ × 3⅛ in.

PLATE 47. L. J.-MARIE BIZEUL. (D.83.) FOURTH STATE 6½ × 4⁵/₈ in.

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