New Caledonia: Large Native Hut on the Road from Balade to Puépo, 1845
1863
Medium
Etching with scraping, burnishing and drypoint in warm black, with graphite additions on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 11.5 × 22.8 cm (4 9/16 × 9 in.); Plate: 14.2 × 24.8 cm (5 5/8 × 9 13/16 in.); Sheet: 20.6 × 31.8 cm (8 1/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74046
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...