Rebus: Béranger was not Really Strong, for he Never had the Key of the Fields
Charles Meryon
1863
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 29.1 × 12.4 cm (11 1/2 × 4 15/16 in.); Plate: 30.5 × 15 cm (12 1/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Sheet, folded: 44.7 × 33.7 cm (17 5/8 × 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47359
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...