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 × 12.5 cm (11 1/2 × 4 15/16 in.); Plate: 30.6 × 15.1 cm (12 1/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 45 × 29.7 cm (17 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63729
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...