Cow and Ass
Medium
Etching on wove paper; second and final state
Dimensions
plate: 2 15/16 x 5 1/4 in. (7.5 x 13.4 cm) sheet: 5 1/4 x 7 1/16 in. (13.4 x 17.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.78.1
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Meryon|Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg · 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...