La morgue, Paris (The Mortuary)
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 21.2 × 19 cm (8 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.) plate (cut to platemark ): 23.3 × 20.9 cm (9 3/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Myron A. Hofer
Accession Number
1946.14.1
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...