The Gallery of Notre-Dame, Paris
Charles Meryon
1853
Medium
Etching and engraving on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 27.5 × 16.1 cm (10 7/8 × 6 3/8 in.); Plate: 28.3 × 17.6 cm (11 3/16 × 6 15/16 in.); Sheet: 43.2 × 31.5 cm (17 1/16 × 12 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
117238
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...