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Charles Meryon, artist
French, 1821--1868
Passerelle du Pont-au-Change, Paris, aprËs L'incendie de 1621, 1860
Etching on gray chine collÈ
11.9 x 22.9 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.397

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Artist Biography: Printmaker. Etchings romantically depict the life and mood of mid-19th-century Paris. ~~Although MÈryon is considered by many to be a great master of etching, striking for its originality and modernity, it was appreciated by very few contemporary artists and critics. Prints sold for almost nothing. His life was fraught with great disappointments and terrible hardships; he became subject to hallucinations, and was later committed to the Charenton mental institution at Saint-Maurice. A partial cure was effected, however he returned to the asylum in 1867 and committed suicide a year later. ~~MÈryon's rendering of architecture is frequently visionary, and generally his figures are incidental.~~Reference: Delteil, Loys.,ed. Harold J.L. Wright. Catalogue RaisonnÈ of the Etchings of Charles Meryon (New York: Winfred Porter Truesdell, 1924)~Schneiderman, Richard S. The Catalogue RaisonnÈ of the Prints of Charles Meryon (London: Garton & Co., 1990)~

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