Pompe Notre-Dame, Paris (small plate)
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 10.8 × 8 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Plate: 10.8 × 8 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 43.4 × 32.2 cm (17 1/8 × 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28780
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...