Nouvelle Zélande, Presqu'ile de Banks (View of Collier's Point, New Zealand)
1863
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 11.9 × 29.5 cm (4 11/16 × 11 5/8 in.) plate: 15.5 × 32.7 cm (6 1/8 × 12 7/8 in.) sheet: 35.2 × 50.7 cm (13 7/8 × 19 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2015.189.1
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...