R. Horace Gallatin Collection

June 26 – July 25, 1949
Ground Floor, Central Gallery

Charles Meryon, *Le Pont-au-Change, Paris*, 1854, etching on green paper, Rosenwald Collection, 1943.3.6170

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: Recent acquisitions from the Rosenwald collection and the R. Horace Gallatin bequest were shown. Included were engravings and etchings by Jacques Callot, Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Charles Meryon, and James McNeill Whistler. 10 paintings from the bequest were to be exhibited later. R. Horace Gallatin was the great-grandson of Albert Gallatin, secretary of the treasury from 1802 to 1814.