Charles Meryon
Date1969
Artist
Leonard Baskin
(American sculptor and printmaker, 1922–2000)
Publisher
Gehenna Press
(American private publisher, 1942–2005)
Illustration CitationLaus Pictorum: Portraits of Nineteenth Century Artists. Northampton, Massachusetts: Gehenna Press, 1969.
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 4 9/16 × 2 7/16 in. (11.6 × 6.2 cm)
sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.6 × 27.6 cm)
sheet: 14 × 10 7/8 in. (35.6 × 27.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Alfred Appel, Jr., 2009
Object number2009-49.8
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextCharles Meryon (1821–1868) pictured the architecture of Paris in the mid-1800s. Baskin compared Meryon's images of Parisian buildings "dank with slime, muck, and grime" to a setting for a tale by Edgar Allan Poe.
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