La Rue des Mauvais Garçons, Paris (The Street of the Bad Boys)
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
etching on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 12.5 × 9.7 cm (4 15/16 × 3 13/16 in.) sheet: 19.5 × 15 cm (7 11/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6149
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...