The Printer Valère Maxime being Presented to King Louis XI
Charles Meryon
1860
Medium
Etching and drypoint on grayish ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.7 × 17.2 cm (5 13/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Plate: 17.2 × 20 cm (6 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 25 × 32.3 cm (9 7/8 × 12 3/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47352
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...