Swift-Sailing Proa, Mulgrave Archipelago, Oceania
1866
Medium
Etching with drypoint in warm black with monogram printed à la poupée in red on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 9.4 × 7.4 cm (3 3/4 × 2 15/16 in.); Plate: 14.6 × 8 cm (5 3/4 × 3 3/16 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 32.5 cm (17 1/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63794
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...