Le tombeau de Molière, au Père-Lachaise, Paris (Moliere's Tomb, in Père-Lachaise Cemetary, Paris)
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 6.7 × 7 cm (2 5/8 × 2 3/4 in.) sheet: 17.3 × 16.3 cm (6 13/16 × 6 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6151
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...