Portrait of François Viète
Charles Meryon
1861
Medium
Etching with burnishing on grayish ivory laid chine
Dimensions
Image: 20.9 × 13.9 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.); Plate: 20.9 × 13.9 cm (8 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.); Sheet: 24 × 15.6 cm (9 1/2 × 6 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28845
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...