Chapter I: Front Matter

THE ETCHINGS OF CHARLES MERYON

THE ETCHINGS OF
CHARLES MERYON

BY CAMPBELL DODGSON, M.A., C.B.E.
KEEPER OF THE PRINTS AND DRAWINGS
AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM

EDITED BY GEOFFREY HOLME
PUBLISHED BY “THE STUDIO,” LTD., LONDON
MCMXXI

_Printed by Herbert Reiach, Ltd.,
9 King Street, Covent Garden,
London. Photogravure plates
engraved and printed by A.
Alexander & Sons, Ltd., 15
Westmoreland Place, City Road,
London._

CONTENTS

ARTICLES Page

Introduction 1

Early Life 3

The Early Etchings 6

The Etchings of Paris 8

Other Etchings of the ’Fifties 20

The Late Etchings 22

List of Meryon’s Etchings 24

LIST OF ETCHINGS REPRODUCED.[1] Plate

Charles Meryon. By Félix Bracquemond 9 × 5-7/8 in. 1

Titre des Eaux-fortes sur Paris (D.17), 6-1/2 × 4-15/16 in. 2

Dédicace à Reynier Nooms, dit Zeeman (D.18), 6-15/16 × 2-3/4 in. 3

Ancienne Porte du Palais de Justice (D.19), third state 3-7/16 × 3-3/8 in. 4

Armes Symboliques de la Ville de Paris (D.21), third state, 5-3/8 × 4-3/8 in. 5

Le Stryge (D.23), eighth state, 6-3/4 × 5-1/8 in. 6

Le Petit Pont (D.24), fifth state, 10-1/4 × 7-1/2 in. 7

L’Arche du Pont Notre-Dame (D.25), third state 6 × 7-3/4 in. 8

La Galerie Notre-Dame (D.26), third state, 11-1/8 × 6-15/16 in. 9

La Rue des Mauvais Garçons (D.27), third state, 5 × 3-7/8 in. 10

La Tour de L’Horloge (D.28), third state, 10-5/16 × 7-1/4 in. 11

Tourelle de la Rue de la Tixéranderie (D.29), second state, 9-3/4 × 5-3/16 in. 12

Saint-Etienne-du-Mont (D.30), fifth state 9-3/4 × 5-1/8 in. 13

La Pompe Notre-Dame (D.31), ninth state, 6-3/4 × 9-7/8 in. 14

La Petite Pompe (D.32), second state, 4-1/4 × 3-1/8 in. 15

Le Pont-Neuf (D.33), eighth state, 7-3/16 × 7-1/4 in. 16

Le Pont-au-Change (D.34), second state, 6-1/8 × 13-1/16 in. 17

Le Pont-au-Change (D.34), ninth state, 6-1/8 × 13-1/16 in. 18

L’Espérance (D.35), (Vers destinés à accompagner Le Pont-au-Change), 2-1/2 × 5 in. 19

La Morgue (D.36), third state, 9-1/8 × 8-1/8 in. 20

L’Hôtellerie de la Mort (D.37), two plates each 4-3/4 × 1-3/8 in. 21

L’Abside de Notre-Dame de Paris (D.38), fourth state, 6-1/2 × 11-3/4 in. 22

Tombeau de Molière (D.40), second state, 2-5/8 × 2-3/4 in. 23

Charles Meryon, 1858. By Léopold Flameng, 8-3/4 × 10-3/4 in. 24

Tourelle de la Rue de L’Ecole.-de-Médecine (D.41), sixth state, 8-3/8 × 5-3/16 in. 25

Tourelle de la Rue de L’Ecole.-de-Médecine (D.41), ninth state, 8-3/8 × 5-3/16 in. 26

Rue des Chantres (D.42), first state, 11-3/4 × 5-7/8 in. 27

Rue des Chantres (D.42), fourth state, 11-3/4 × 5-7/8 in. 28

Collège Henri IV. (D. 43), sixth state, 11-5/8 × 18-7/8 in. 29

Bain-froid Chevrier (D.44), fourth state, 5-1/8 × 5-5/8 in. 30

Le Ministère de la Marine (D.45), first state, 6-5/8 × 5-3/4 in. 31

Le Ministère de la Marine (D.45), fifth state, 6-5/8 × 5-3/4 in. 32

Le Pont-Neuf et la Samaritaine (D.46), third state, 5-11/16 × 8 in. 33

Le Pont-au-Change vers 1784, d’après Nicolle (D. 47), third state, 5-5/16 × 9-3/8 in. 34

La Salle des Pas-perdus à l’ancien Palais-de-Justice (D.48), fourth state, 10-5/8 × 17-1/8 in. 35

Rue Pirouette aux Halles (D.49), third state, 6-1/8 × 4-9/16 in. 36

Partie de la Cité vers la Fin du XVIIᵉ Siècle (D.51), seventh state, 6 × 12-5/8 in. 37

L’Ancien Louvre, d’après une peinture de Zeeman (D.53), fifth state, 6-3/8 × 10-1/2 in. 38

Porte d’un ancien Couvent à Bourges (D.54), second state, 6-5/8 × 4-3/8 in. 39

Rue des Toiles à Bourges (D.55), fifth state, 8-1/2 × 4-3/4 in. 40

Ancienne Habitation à Bourges (D.56), fourth state, 9-5/8 × 5-7/16 in. 41

Entrée du Couvent des Capucins à Athènes (D.61), third state, 7-5/8 × 5 in. 42

Nouvelle-Calédonie. Grande case indigène sur le Chemin de Ballade à Poepo (D.67), fourth state, 5-5/8 × 9-3/4 in. 43

Océanie, Pêche aux Palmes (D.68), fourth state, 6-1/4 × 13-1/4 in. 44

La Chaumière du Colon (D.72), third state, 3-1/8 × 3 in. 45

Prô-volant des Iles Mulgrave (D.74), fifth state, 5-3/4 × 3-1/8 in. 46