A Soldier Standing, in Profile
Charles Meryon
1849
Medium
Etching on buff laid chine
Dimensions
Image: 13.6 × 8.4 cm (5 3/8 × 3 5/16 in.); Plate: 13.6 × 8.7 cm (5 3/8 × 3 7/16 in.); Sheet: 17.2 × 12.2 cm (6 13/16 × 4 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74032
About the Artist
Charles Meryon · 1821–1868
Charles Meryon, born on November 23, 1821, in Paris, was the illegitimate son of English physician Dr. Charles Lewis Meryon and dancer Pierre-Narcisse Chaspoux (stage name Narcisse Gentil) at the Paris Opéra. His half-sister Fanny, from his mother's prior relationship with Viscount Lowther, remained in contact after their mother's death in 1838. Raised partly outside Paris before attending Pension...