Oceania: Fishing, Near Islands with Palms in the Uea or Wallis Group, 1845
Charles Meryon
1863
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 11.9 × 29.8 cm (4 11/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Plate: 15.8 × 33.9 cm (6 1/4 × 13 3/8 in.); Sheet: 33.4 × 45.6 cm (13 3/16 × 18 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
123966
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...