Le Pont-au-Change vers 1784
Medium
Etching; first state of six
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 15/16 × 9 1/16 in. (12.5 × 23 cm) Plate: 5 1/4 × 9 7/16 in. (13.4 × 23.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 2012
Accession Number
2012.541
Tags
BuildingsBridgesCanalsBoatsHuman Figures
About the Artist
Charles Meryon|Victor Jean Nicolle · 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...