Object number2015.5.1.1

The Bridge near Chevreuse (Le pont près de Chevreuse)

Date1846

Artist Eugène-Stanislas-Alexandre Blery (French, 1805 - 1887)

CultureFrench

Mediumstate i/iii: etching and surface tone on cream chine collé mounted on cream wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 13 1/2 x 10 1/16 in. (34.29 x 25.56 cm)
Plate mark: 10 1/8 x 7 1/8 in. (25.72 x 18.1 cm)
Image: 9 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. (24.13 x 16.83 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wright Citron, by exchange

On View

Not on view

Period19th c

Classification(s)

SignedSigned and dated (within platemark, annotated in pencil below): Le Blanc 42; Béraldi 36II or III; IFF après 1800, vol. I. p. 505.

InscribedInscribed LRC within platemark: aqua fortt 1846; (signed LLC, in ink) E Blery sulpt Nature; @ LLC (illeg. script-signature?); verso LRC: H.M.P. 155090; @ ULC (illeg. pencil script): label on mat from dealer: II Eugène Stanislas Alexandre Bléry (1805 Fontainbleau-1867 Paris) Le pont de Chevreuse. Two etchings, second and third state of three, on chine-Collé. Both 25.7 x 18 cm.

Catalogue raisonnéBéraldi supplement 36 ii/iii and iii/iii; Le Blanc 42

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