Portrait of Edmond de Courtives
Charles Meryon
c. 1849
Medium
Etching in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 4.9 × 4.5 cm (1 15/16 × 1 13/16 in.); Plate: 8.5 × 7.5 cm (3 3/8 × 3 in.); Sheet: 9.3 × 8.3 cm (3 11/16 × 3 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74007
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...