The Gallery of Notre-Dame, Paris
Charles Meryon
1853
Medium
Etching on verdâtre (greenish-ivory) laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 28 × 17.4 cm (11 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.); Plate: 28 × 17.4 cm (11 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.); Sheet: 37.4 × 28 cm (14 3/4 × 11 1/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28763
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...