Art, literature & history
La morgue, Paris (The Mortuary)
1854
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and drypoint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 21.2 × 18.9 cm (8 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.) plate: 23 × 20.5 cm (9 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 35.9 × 26.4 cm (14 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.6172
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Meryon. La morgue, Paris (The Mortuary). 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,_La_morgue,_Paris_(The_Mortuary),_1854,_NGA_9104.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
La morgue, Paris (The Mortuary) — Charles Meryon. 1854.
Medium: etching and drypoint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 21.2 × 18.9 cm (8 3/8 × 7 7/16 in.) plate: 23 × 20.5 cm (9 1/16 × 8 1/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 35.9 × 26.4 cm (14 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.6172. 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.