New Caledonia: Large Native Hut on the Road from Balade to Puépo, 1845
1863
Medium
Etching with burnishing, scraping and drypoint in warm black ink on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 11.6 × 22.7 cm (4 5/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Plate: 14.1 × 24.6 cm (5 9/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 18.5 × 31.1 cm (7 5/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47290
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...