Molière's tomb, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
Copper plate
Dimensions
plate: 2 5/8 x 2 3/4 in. (6.7 x 7 cm)
Classification
Plates
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1925
Accession Number
31.103.1
Tags
TombsLeaves
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...