Detail View: The AMICA Library: Le Styrge
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AMICA ID:
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MIA_.P.3,007
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AMICA Library Year:
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2003
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Object Type:
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Prints
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Creator Name:
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Mèryon Charles
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Creator Name:
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Delâtre Auguste
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Creator Name:
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Mèryon Charles
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Creator Name:
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Delâtre Auguste
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Creator Nationality:
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France
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Creator Nationality:
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French
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Creator Nationality:
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France
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Creator Nationality:
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French
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Role:
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Printer
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Creator Role:
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Artist
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Creator Role:
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Printer
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1821 - 1868
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1822 - 1907
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1821 - 1868
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1822 - 1907
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Gender:
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M
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Charles Mèryon
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Auguste Delâtre
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Charles Mèryon
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Auguste Delâtre
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Title:
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Le Styrge
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View:
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Front
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Creation Date:
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1853
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Creation Start Date:
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1853
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Creation End Date:
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1853
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Materials and Techniques:
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Etching
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Classification Term:
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Print
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State:
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5th state
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Dimensions:
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6 3/16 x 4 5/8 in. (15.72 x 11.75 cm) (plate)15 1/8 x 12 5/8 in. (38.42 x 32.07 cm) (sheet)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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Owner Location:
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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ID Number:
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P.3,007
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Credit Line:
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The William M. Ladd CollectionGift of Herschel V. Jones, 1916
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Inscriptions:
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Inscribed:Inscription and watermarkInscription: [tiré par moi/ sur la presse de l'ami Mèryon/ Aug. Delâtre]
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Rights:
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Context:
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This print offers a close-up view of one of the stone gargoyles added during the restoration to the Cathedral of Notre Dame by the architect Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. For Meryon, this mostrous figure symbolized stupidity, cruelty, lust, and hypocrisy. On earlier states of this etching Meryon had written the couplet, "The insatiable Vampire, eternal lust forever coveting its food in the great city." This was eventually taken off the print for the final state, but an ominous presence of evil in the city still pervades this print. Figuring prominently in the background of the image is the recently refurbished square steeple of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie. Meryon was said to have seen, "an enemy behind each battlement and arms through each loophole,' and to have expected "to have the boiling oil and the molten lead poured down." This particular sheet is annotated as a particularily fine impression by the master printer Auguste Delâtre, who pulled the work from Meryon's own press.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MIA_.26320c.tif
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