Vers a Eugène Bléry, No 2 (Verses dedicated to Eugène Bléry, No 2)
1854
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
plate: 5 x 2 11/16 in. (12.7 x 6.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.78.48
Art Historical Context
Charles Meryon, a French etcher of the mid-19th century, *Vers a Eugène Bl, No 2* in 1854, a etching measuring just 5 x 2 11/16 inches. This intimate work, housed in the Metropolitan Museum of's Drawings and Prints department, translates to "Verses dedicated Eugène Bléry,. 2," honoring Meryon's contemporary and fellow etcher Eugène Bléry. Produced during Meryon's formative years, it reflects the close-knit world of Parisian printmakers experimenting with etching's precision to capture emotion and detail. Etching, Meryon's preferred medium, allowed him to incise fine lines into a metal plate w...
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...