Artwork
After Meryon - Le Stryge
After Meryon - Le Stryge is a photographic photography by Alvin Langdon Coburn. It dates from 1950 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. A mounted sepia photograph depicts a chaotic scene atop Notre Dame Cathedral, with the image affixed to card backing.
About this work
Overview
A mounted sepia photograph depicts a chaotic scene atop Notre Dame Cathedral, with the image affixed to card backing. On the reverse side of the mount, a copy of a print by F. H. Evans is included.
Artist & collection
Artist
Alvin Langdon Coburn kept a tiny camera in every coat pocket, snapping odd angles of London’s streets while pretending to window-shop.
The British Lion
London: A Sphinx
On the Embankment
A Sphinx, The Embankment, London
Bust of Dionysus, Platon
'Stele with Buddhist triad', China, 581-618 or later, 'Bodhisattva', Japan, 'Bowl', (origins unknown), 'Figure of Avalokiteshvara', Japanese, after statue in Horyuji Temple, early 20th century, 'Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kannon)', Japan, late 8th century, from the Charles Lang Freer Collection
'Jar', Raqqa, Syria, 11th-12th century, 'Head and Bust (fragment) of a man', Egypt, ca. 1980-1630 BCE, face later recarved, from the Charles Lang Freer Collection
'Figure of Anubis', Egypt, 664-525 BCE, 'Resting', ca 1870-1873 by James McNeil Whistler and 'Figurine of the Goddess Neith', 664-525 BCE or later, from the Charles Lang Freer Collection
