La galerie Notre-Dame, Paris (The Gallery of Notre Dame, Paris)
Charles Meryon
1853
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 27.4 × 16.2 cm (10 13/16 × 6 3/8 in.) plate: 28 × 17.3 cm (11 × 6 13/16 in.) sheet: 47.7 × 31.9 cm (18 3/4 × 12 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6163
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...