Rébus: "Ci-gît la vendetta surannée" (Rebus: "Here Lies the Ancient Vendetta")
Charles Meryon
1863
Medium
etching and engraving on wove paper
Dimensions
plate (cut to plate mark): 7.9 × 7.5 cm (3 1/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6188
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...