Nov 07, 2002 - Sale 1950

Sale 1950 - Lot 455

Unsold
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
CHARLES MERYON
Le Pont-au-Change.

Etching with drypoint on thin cream laid paper collé on smooth cream wove paper support, 1854. 155x335 mm; 6 1/8x13 1/4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Schneiderman's fifth or sixth state (of 12) or an undescribed state between the fifth and sixth states (of 12), with the inscription added in cursive in the lower margin and with the short vertical scratch in the sky upper center but before any of the additional drypoint on the figures on the bridge and the houses beyond the bridge. The vice mark in the upper right corner of the plate still printing slightly. With partially erased inscriptions regarding the state (incorrectly described as "première état") in pencil on the support sheet, lower center. Schneiderman 40.