Title Page to Eaux-Fortes sur Paris
1852
Medium
Etching in warm black on folded brown wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.7 × 12.3 cm (6 5/8 × 4 7/8 in.); Plate: 16.7 × 12.3 cm (6 5/8 × 4 7/8 in.); Sheet, folded: 42.7 × 32.2 cm (16 13/16 × 12 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
63999
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...