The Printer Valère Maxime being Presented to King Louis XI
Charles Meryon
1860
Medium
Etching and drypoint on ivory Japanese paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.2 × 17.2 cm (5 5/8 × 6 13/16 in.); Plate: 17.3 × 20.1 cm (6 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.); Sheet: 19.8 × 27.9 cm (7 13/16 × 11 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63628
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...