L'arche du Pont Notre-Dame, Paris (An Arch of the Notre-Dame Bridge, Paris)
1853
Medium
etching and drypoint on green laid paper
Dimensions
image: 12.5 × 16.6 cm (4 15/16 × 6 9/16 in.) plate: 15.1 × 19.1 cm (5 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.) sheet (irreg.): 22.6 × 27.1 cm (8 7/8 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of R. Horace Gallatin
Accession Number
1949.1.34
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...