Le stryge (The Vampire)
1853
Medium
etching on green laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.8 × 12.9 cm (6 5/8 × 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 25.6 × 19 cm (10 1/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Myron A. Hofer in memory of his mother, Mrs. Charles Hofer
Accession Number
1945.6.2
Rights
Public Domain
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...