Le Petit Pont, Paris
Charles Meryon
1850
Medium
Etching and engraving on greenish-ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.8 × 19 cm (10 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Plate: 25.8 × 19 cm (10 3/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Sheet: 27.5 × 20.2 cm (10 7/8 × 8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
58477
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...