Pont-au-Change, Paris
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
Etching on ivory wove chine
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 15 × 33 cm (5 15/16 × 13 in.); Plate: 15.6 × 33.4 cm (6 3/16 × 13 3/16 in.); Sheet: 21.5 × 39.2 cm (8 1/2 × 15 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
64630
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...