Pompe Notre-Dame, Paris, small plate
1854
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper, with ivory laid paper affixed at bottom
Dimensions
Image: 11.8 × 7.9 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Plate: 11.8 × 7.9 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/8 in.); Sheet: 12.8 × 10.7 cm (5 1/16 × 4 1/4 in.); Sheet, with attachment: 13.8 × 10.7 cm (5 7/16 × 4 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63674
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...