La rue des Mauvais Garçons
1854
Medium
Etching in warm black with roulette (plate is scraped and burnished) on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 12.5 × 9.8 cm (4 15/16 × 3 7/8 in.); Plate: 12.5 × 9.8 cm (4 15/16 × 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 29.3 × 22 cm (11 9/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28805
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...