Etchings of Paris; Title page to the suite, 1852, Etching on brown wove paper; first state, plate: 6 1/2 x 4 15/16 in. (16.5 x 12.5 cm), Prints, Charles Meryon (French, 1821–1868), Charles Meryon was celebrated among artists and collectors alike during the nineteenth century for his etched depictions of Paris. These works combined a documentary eye on the French capital—which was then undergoing dramatic transformation from a medieval to distinctly modern city—with fantastic details that varied from the whimsical to the morbid
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