Cover for a Voyage to New Zealand (1842-46)
Charles Meryon
1866
Medium
Etching on brown wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.5 × 23.7 cm (6 1/8 × 9 3/8 in.); Plate: 15.5 × 23.7 cm (6 1/8 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet, folded: 33 × 44.9 cm (13 × 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47319
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...