The Ploughman and His Horse
Charles Meryon
1854
Medium
Reproduction of an etching on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.1 × 8.7 cm (5 3/16 × 3 7/16 in.); Plate: 13.6 × 9.4 cm (5 3/8 × 3 3/4 in.); Sheet: 22.6 × 14.3 cm (8 15/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
Classification
reproduction
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
68338
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...