L'arche du Pont Notre-Dame, Paris (An Arch of the Notre-Dame Bridge, Paris)
1853
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid green paper
Dimensions
image: 12.4 × 16.8 cm (4 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.) plate: 15.1 × 19.5 cm (5 15/16 × 7 11/16 in.) sheet: 15.9 × 20.4 cm (6 1/4 × 8 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6162
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...