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Lunar Law, No 2

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Lunar Law, No 2

1866

Medium

Etching, printed on laid paper; first state of six

Dimensions

plate: 4 7/8 x 3 1/2 in. (12.4 x 8.6 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1917

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Charles Meryon

1821–1868 • France

He was a successful printmaker. He was the illegitimate son of an Englishman, Dr. Charles Lewis Meryon, and Narcisse Chaspoux, a dancer at the Paris Opéra. He was colorblind (unable to distinguish between red and green), as is apparent in his pastels. He suffered mental illness, and died in the famous insane asylum at Charenton (in a suburb of Paris). French artist. Comment on works: etcher

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