The Breton archaeologist Louis Jacques Marie Bizeul, after a photograph
Medium
Etching with engraving on laid paper; second state of five
Dimensions
plate: 6 1/2 x 4 5/8 in. (16.5 x 11.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.78.44
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Charles Meryon|Louise Jacques Marie Bizeul · 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...