Le Pont-Neuf, Paris
Charles Meryon
1853
Medium
etching and drypoint on green laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 17.8 × 18.1 cm (7 × 7 1/8 in.) sheet (irreg.): 30.9 × 39.5 cm (12 3/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of R. Horace Gallatin
Accession Number
1949.1.30
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...