La Rue des Chantres, Paris (Chantrey Street, Paris)
1862
Medium
etching on laid Arches paper
Dimensions
image: 28.5 × 12 cm (11 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.) plate: 29.9 × 15.8 cm (11 3/4 × 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 51.1 × 33.7 cm (20 1/8 × 13 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6175
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...