The Gallery of Notre-Dame, Paris

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View of the Chimera gallery at Notre-Dame, showing the colonnade and crows fluttering about — Notre-Dame gallery.

Artist

Name:: Méryon, Charles
Dates:: 1821-1868
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Buildings & monuments
Technique:: Etching
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: University of California Libraries, The Internet Archive

Book

Title:: The etchings of Charles Meryon
Author(s):: Dodgson, Campbell
Publisher:: London: The Studio, Ltd., 1921
Open Library:: View record

Description

View of the Chimera gallery at Notre-Dame Cathedral, showing the Gothic colonnade, crows fluttering and pecking about, and a glimpse of the Paris cityscape. Méryon submitted this etching to the Salon in 1853, but it was rejected.

The caption reads in the original French: La galerie Notre-Dame.

Keywords: 1920s, 19th century, 20th century, black & white, Gothic, pillar