Le Ministère de la Marine (the Admiralty, Paris)
Charles Meryon
1865
Medium
Etching; third state of seven
Dimensions
Plate: 6 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (16.8 x 14.6 cm) Sheet: 6 1/2 × 5 11/16 in. (16.5 × 14.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.78.16
Tags
ParisBuildingsObelisksChariots
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...