Lunar Law, No. 1
1856
Medium
Etching with foul biting, hand-colored with watercolor, on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 15.1 × 24.4 cm (6 × 9 5/8 in.); Plate: 15.5 × 24.4 cm (6 1/8 × 9 5/8 in.); Sheet: 20.1 × 25.8 cm (7 15/16 × 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74058
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...