Death's Hostel
1854
Medium
Etching in brown with two plates side-by-side on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image, left: 12.2 × 3.6 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Plate, left: 12.2 × 3.6 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Image, right: 12.1 × 3.5 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Plate, right: 12.1 × 3.5 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Sheet: 20 × 16.7 cm (7 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63810
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...