Le Stryge
Artist
Charles Meryon
(French, 1821 - 1868)
Date1853
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 6 5/8 × 5 1/16 inches (16.83 × 12.86 cm)
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 5 7/8 inches (19.37 × 14.92 cm)
Sheet: 7 5/8 × 5 7/8 inches (19.37 × 14.92 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert B. Fizzell
Object number58-70/59
Signedl.r. (in plate): "C.M."
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionWithin oval reserve, right, facing left, figure of gargoyle brooding over Parise scene; four crows flying left. Inscription below oval: "The insatiable Vampire, eternal lust, forever coveting its food in the great city." (Translation from the French)Exhibition History[No known exhibitions at this time]
Robert B. Fizzell (1889-1978), Kansas City, MO, by December 10, 1958;
Given by Robert B. Fizzell to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.
Loys Delteil and Harold J.L. Wright, Catalogue Raisonné of the Etchings of Charles Meryon (London: Truesdell, 1924), no. 23 IV/VII.
Richard S. Schneiderman, The Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints of Charles Meryon (London: Garton, 1990), no. 27 IV/X.
George L. McKenna, Prints, 1460-1995 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 293, as Le Stryge.
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