Pont-au-Change, Paris, about 1784
Charles Meryon
1855
Medium
Etching in dark brown on cream wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.1 × 22.7 cm (5 3/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Plate: 13.6 × 23.7 cm (5 3/8 × 9 3/8 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 45.6 cm (12 11/16 × 18 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63836
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...