L'abside de Notre-Dame de Paris (The Apse ofthe Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris)
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 14.9 × 28.9 cm (5 7/8 × 11 3/8 in.) plate: 16.5 × 30 cm (6 1/2 × 11 13/16 in.) sheet: 22.8 × 36 cm (9 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1958.8.110
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...