Etchings of Paris: The Mortuary
Medium
etching and drypoint
Dimensions
sheet: 33.7 × 29.2 cm · platemark: 23.1 × 20.7 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Milton Curtiss Rose Collection in memory of Evelyn Curtiss Rose
Accession Number
1954.893
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About this artwork
One of the greatest French etchers and an important figure in the mid-19th-century etching revival, Meryon devoted himself exclusively to drawing and printmaking by the age of 28. Continually experimenting to achieve the desired nuances of light and shadow, he developed his compositions through numerous states and printed on a variety of papers, favoring pale green for some of his most beautiful impressions. Meryon specialized in views of Paris, often recording older areas, like the morgue build...