Lunar Law, No. 1
1856
Medium
Etching with foul biting, hand-colored with watercolor, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.2 × 22.9 cm (5 1/4 × 9 1/16 in.); Plate: 16.1 × 24.8 cm (6 3/8 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 17 × 25.5 cm (6 3/4 × 10 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63696
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...