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Océanie, ilots à Uvea (Wallis); Peche aux palmes, 1845 (Oceania: Fishing, Near Islands with Palms in the Uea or Wallis Group)
1863
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 11.6 × 29.3 cm (4 9/16 × 11 9/16 in.) plate: 15.8 × 33.8 cm (6 1/4 × 13 5/16 in.) sheet: 31.7 × 45.5 cm (12 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.6185
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Meryon. Océanie, ilots à Uvea (Wallis); Peche aux palmes, 1845 (Oceania: Fishing, Near Islands with Palms in the Uea or Wallis Group). Charles Meryon; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Meryon,_Oc%C3%A9anie,_ilots_%C3%A0_Uvea_(Wallis);_Peche_aux_palmes,_1845_(Oceania_-_Fishing,_Near_Islands_with_Palms_in_the_Uea_or_Wallis_Group),_1863,_NGA_9117.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Océanie, ilots à Uvea (Wallis); Peche aux palmes, 1845 (Oceania: Fishing, Near Islands with Palms in the Uea or Wallis Group) — Charles Meryon. 1863.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 11.6 × 29.3 cm (4 9/16 × 11 9/16 in.) plate: 15.8 × 33.8 cm (6 1/4 × 13 5/16 in.) sheet: 31.7 × 45.5 cm (12 1/2 × 17 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.6185. Rosenwald Collection.
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.