Art, literature & history
L'abside de Notre-Dame de Paris (The Apse of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris)
1854
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 14.8 × 28.7 cm (5 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.) plate: 16.4 × 29.8 cm (6 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.) sheet: 25.9 × 39.1 cm (10 3/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1949.1.37
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Meryon. L'abside de Notre-Dame de Paris (The Apse of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris). Charles Meryon; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of R. Horace Gallatin. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
L'abside de Notre-Dame de Paris (The Apse of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris) — Charles Meryon. 1854.
Medium: etching, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 14.8 × 28.7 cm (5 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.) plate: 16.4 × 29.8 cm (6 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.) sheet: 25.9 × 39.1 cm (10 3/16 × 15 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1949.1.37. Gift of R. Horace Gallatin.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.