The historian John Besly, after Jaspar Isaac
Medium
Etching on laid paper; fourth state of four
Dimensions
plate: 5 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. (14.6 x 12.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.78.43
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Charles Meryon|Jean Besly|Jasper Isaac|A. Beillet · 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...