Study for Share Certificates in a Fraudulent Franco-Californian Company, No. 1
Charles Meryon
1855
Medium
Gillotage in black on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.6 × 14 cm (6 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.); Block: 16.6 × 14 cm (6 9/16 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 27.7 × 21.8 cm (10 15/16 × 8 5/8 in.)
Classification
relief etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
74015
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...