The Phantom Vessel
Medium
Lithograph; second state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 5/16 × 21 7/16 in. (38.9 × 54.5 cm) Image: 7 1/2 × 13 3/4 in. (19 × 35 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.78.61
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Meryon|Théophile Chauvel|Lemercier & Cie. · 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...