Tourelle de la Rue de la Tixéranderie, Paris (House with a Turret, Weavers' Street, Paris)
Charles Meryon
1852
Medium
etching on green laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 24.6 × 13.2 cm (9 11/16 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet (irreg.): 35.7 × 22.1 cm (14 1/16 × 8 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of R. Horace Gallatin
Accession Number
1949.1.25
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...