Tourelle, Rue de la Tixeranderie
Charles Meryon
1852
Medium
etching in brown on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 24.5 × 13.1 cm (9 5/8 × 5 3/16 in.) sheet: 33.7 × 24.5 cm (13 1/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2017.156.1
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...