?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
CHARLES MERYON La Morgue.
Etching and drypoint printed in dark brownish black on thin, cream laid paper, 1854. 230x207 mm; 9 1/8x8 1/8 inches, full margins. Schneiderman's Second state (of 7), with the incomplete left border line and the white halo around the head of the man standing on the parapet wall at left and before the addition of the artist's name and title. The words Contributions Directes in cursive letters watermark. A brilliant, early impression with strong contrasts, warm plate tone and crisp, inky plate edges. Scheiderman 42.
