The Gallery of Notre-Dame, Paris
1853
Medium
Etching in warm black on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 28.2 × 17.1 cm (11 1/8 × 6 3/4 in.); Plate: 28.4 × 17.7 cm (11 3/16 × 7 in.); Primary support: 28.4 × 17.8 cm (11 3/16 × 7 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 44.4 × 31.5 cm (17 1/2 × 12 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
53920
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...