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Le Pont au Change

1854
Not on view
While Paris was becoming a modern European city, Meryon clung to the sights of its oldest structures, fixing them in etching. Like the drowning man in the foreground of this print, the artist found his world caving in, and as his sanity dimmed the skies in his prints filled with flying fish, and visions like those of the charioteer, serpent, and fragments of female anatomy penciled into clouds above the Seine.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Le Pont au Change
  • Series/Portfolio: Etchings of Paris
  • Artist: Charles Meryon (French, 1821–1868)
  • Date: 1854
  • Medium: Etching with additions in graphite; seventh state
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 7 3/16 x 14 1/16 in. (18.2 x 35.7 cm)
    Plate: 6 1/8 x 13 1/16 in. (15.6 x 33.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966
  • Object Number: 67.630.9
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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Le Pont-au-Change vers 1784, Charles Meryon French, Etching; first state of six
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after Victor Jean Nicolle
1855
Ceramic Horn, Glazed pottery, French
Ceramic Horn
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late 18th or early 19th century
Opening the Fold, or Early Morning, Samuel Palmer British, Etching; third state of ten, retouched in graphite
Opening the Fold, or Early Morning
Samuel Palmer
1880
Old Gate of the Palais de Justice, Charles Meryon French, Etching and drypoint; second state of two
Old Gate of the Palais de Justice
Charles Meryon
1854
Osage Warrior, Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin French, Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper, American
Osage Warrior
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