Art, literature & history
Le malingre cryptogame (The Sickly Cryptogam)
1860
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 7.1 × 5.9 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.) sheet: 14.1 × 12.2 cm (5 9/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.6152
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Meryon. Le malingre cryptogame (The Sickly Cryptogam). 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,_Le_malingre_cryptogame_(The_Sickly_Cryptogam),_1860,_NGA_9084.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Le malingre cryptogame (The Sickly Cryptogam) — Charles Meryon. 1860.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 7.1 × 5.9 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.) sheet: 14.1 × 12.2 cm (5 9/16 × 4 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.6152. 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.