Rebus:  "Beranger was not really strong for he never had the key to the fields" — Charles Meryon

Charles Meryon

Rebus: "Beranger was not really strong for he never had the key to the fields"

1863

Dating
Exact year
Held at
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Medium
etching
Collection no.
1954.946
Attribution
By the artist
Image rights
CC0 1.0License details

Charles Meryon. Rebus: "Beranger was not really strong for he never had the key to the fields". Charles Meryon; The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Milton Curtiss Rose Collection in memory of Evelyn Curtiss Rose. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art

About this artwork

Rebus: "Beranger was not really strong for he never had the key to the fields" — Charles Meryon. 1863.

Medium: etching. Dimensions: .

Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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