Rebus: Béranger was not really strong, for he never had the key to the fields
Charles Meryon
1863
Medium
Etching; fourth state
Dimensions
plate: 12 x 5 7/8 in. (30.5 x 14.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of E. Gottschalk, 1917
Accession Number
17.15
Tags
Birds
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...