La morgue, Paris (The Mortuary)
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 21.4 × 19.1 cm (8 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.) plate: 23.2 × 20.7 cm (9 1/8 × 8 1/8 in.) sheet: 25.4 × 24.3 cm (10 × 9 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1949.5.76
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...