Château de Chenonceau, No 1, after Ducerceau
Medium
Etching on laid paper; only state
Dimensions
plate: 5 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (13.3 x 22.2 cm) sheet: 8 11/16 x 9 5/8 in. (22 x 24.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966
Accession Number
67.630.11
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Meryon|Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau · 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...