Armes symboliques de la ville de Paris (Symbolical Arms of the City of Paris)
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 13.6 × 11.1 cm (5 3/8 × 4 3/8 in.) sheet: 17.5 × 14.4 cm (6 7/8 × 5 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6159
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...