The Admiralty, Paris
Charles Meryon
1865
Medium
Etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 15.4 × 14 cm (6 1/8 × 5 9/16 in.); Plate: 16.5 × 14.4 cm (6 1/2 × 5 11/16 in.); Sheet: 39.8 × 28.6 cm (15 11/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47245
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...