Portrait of Charles Meryon Sitting Up in Bed
Léopold Flameng
1858
Medium
Soft ground etching on ivory Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 18.4 × 24.5 cm (7 1/4 × 9 11/16 in.); Plate: 22.3 × 27.2 cm (8 13/16 × 10 3/4 in.); Sheet: 33.3 × 45 cm (13 1/8 × 17 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63631
About the Artist
Léopold Flameng · 1831–1911
Léopold Flameng (1831–1911) was one of the most accomplished and influential French engravers of the 19th century, whose exceptional technical mastery and artistic sensitivity made him the preeminent interpreter of paintings by old and modern masters through the medium of engraving. Born in Brussels on November 22, 1831, to French parents, and dying at Courgent, near Paris, on September 5, 1911, F...