Let the pure soul groan...
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 7 × 3.6 cm (2 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Plate: 7 × 3.6 cm (2 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Sheet: 11.1 × 7.5 cm (4 3/8 × 3 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63818
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...