L'abside de Notre-Dame de Paris (The Apse of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris)
1854
Medium
etching, drypoint, and engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 14.8 × 28.7 cm (5 13/16 × 11 5/16 in.) plate: 16.4 × 29.8 cm (6 7/16 × 11 3/4 in.) sheet: 25.9 × 39.1 cm (10 3/16 × 15 3/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of R. Horace Gallatin
Accession Number
1949.1.37
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...