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Porte d'un ancien couvent, Rue Mirabeau, à Bourges (Doorway of an Ancient Convent, in the Rue Mirabeau, Bourges)
1851
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on Japanese wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 16.8 × 11.1 cm (6 5/8 × 4 3/8 in.) sheet: 18.4 × 12.2 cm (7 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.6210
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Meryon. Porte d'un ancien couvent, Rue Mirabeau, à Bourges (Doorway of an Ancient Convent, in the Rue Mirabeau, Bourges). 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,_Porte_d%27un_ancien_couvent,_Rue_Mirabeau,_%C3%A0_Bourges_(Doorway_of_an_Ancient_Convent,_in_the_Rue_Mirabeau,_Bourges),_1851,_NGA_9142.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Porte d'un ancien couvent, Rue Mirabeau, à Bourges (Doorway of an Ancient Convent, in the Rue Mirabeau, Bourges) — Charles Meryon. 1851.
Medium: etching and drypoint on Japanese wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 16.8 × 11.1 cm (6 5/8 × 4 3/8 in.) sheet: 18.4 × 12.2 cm (7 1/4 × 4 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.6210. 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.