The Admiralty, Paris
1865
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 15.7 × 14.2 cm (6 3/16 × 5 5/8 in.); Plate: 16.8 × 14.6 cm (6 5/8 × 5 3/4 in.); Sheet: 44.8 × 32.5 cm (17 11/16 × 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28744
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...