Rue des toiles, Bourges
Charles Meryon
n.d.
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 20.7 × 11.6 cm (8 3/16 × 4 5/8 in.); Plate: 21.4 × 12 cm (8 7/16 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 27.3 × 17 cm (10 3/4 × 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
78840
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...