Native Barns and Huts at Akaroa, Banks' Peninsula, 1845
Charles Meryon
1865
Medium
Etching with drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 12.7 × 23.9 cm (5 × 9 7/16 in.); Plate: 13.5 × 24.2 cm (5 3/8 × 9 9/16 in.); Sheet, folded: 32.9 × 44.9 cm (13 × 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47300
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...