La Pompe Notre-Dame, Paris
1852
Medium
Etching with drypoint on verdâtre (greenish) laid chine
Dimensions
Image: 17 × 25.2 cm (6 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.); Plate: 17 × 25.2 cm (6 3/4 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 26.7 × 34.6 cm (10 9/16 × 13 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
58475
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...