Portrait of René de Laudonnière Sablais (de Burdigale)
1861
Medium
Etching and drypoint with burnishing and scraping on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.5 × 9.6 cm (5 3/8 × 3 13/16 in.); Plate: 15.3 × 10.8 cm (6 1/16 × 4 5/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 × 22.1 cm (12 1/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74053
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...