Présentation du Valère Maxime au Rois Louis XI (The Printer Valerius Maximus Being Presented to King Louis XI)
1860
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 14.5 × 17 cm (5 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.) plate: 17.3 × 19.9 cm (6 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 22 × 31.2 cm (8 11/16 × 12 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6187
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...