Entrée du Couvent des Capucins français à Athenes (Entrance to the French Capuchin Convent at Athens)
1854
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 17.7 × 11.1 cm (6 15/16 × 4 3/8 in.) plate: 19.1 × 12.4 cm (7 1/2 × 4 7/8 in.) sheet: 23.5 × 15.2 cm (9 1/4 × 6 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6208
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...