La galerie Notre-Dame
Charles Meryon
n.d.
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 27.7 × 16.3 cm (10 15/16 × 6 7/16 in.); Plate: 28.4 × 17.2 cm (11 3/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 33.6 × 21.7 cm (13 1/4 × 8 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
77654
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...