Pont-au-Change, Paris
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
Etching on ivory laid chine
Dimensions
Image: 15.8 × 33.7 cm (6 1/4 × 13 5/16 in.); Plate: 15.8 × 33.7 cm (6 1/4 × 13 5/16 in.); Sheet: 22.3 × 39.6 cm (8 13/16 × 15 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28784
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...