The printer Valère Maxime being presented to King Louis XI, after an earlier miniature
Medium
Etching and drypoint, printed on laid paper; fourth state of seven (Schneiderman)
Dimensions
plate: 6 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (17.1 x 20 cm) sheet: 8 7/16 x 9 7/16 in. (21.5 x 24 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.78.56
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Meryon|Valère Maxime · 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...