The Sickly Cryptogam
Charles Meryon
1860
Medium
Etching with plate tone on tan wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 7 × 5.8 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.); Plate: 7 × 5.8 cm (2 13/16 × 2 5/16 in.); Sheet: 10.7 × 8.8 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63764
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...