The Old Soldier's Thatched Cottage, Akaroa, 1845
Charles Meryon
1866
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 8 × 7.6 cm (3 3/16 × 3 in.); Plate: 8 × 7.6 cm (3 3/16 × 3 in.); Sheet, folded: 44.6 × 31.9 cm (17 9/16 × 12 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
88606
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...