La Pompe Notre-Dame, Paris (The Notre-Dame Pump)
Charles Meryon
1852
Medium
etching and drypoint on green laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.8 × 25.1 cm (6 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.) sheet: 19.1 × 26 cm (7 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6167
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...