The Admiralty, Paris
Charles Meryon
1865
Medium
Etching on laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 6 5/8 x 5 3/4 in. (16.8 x 14.6 cm) Sheet: 9 1/16 × 8 5/16 in. (23 × 21.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.418
Tags
ParisBuildingsFishChariots
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...