Title page to the Eaux-Fortes sur Paris
(Titre des Eaux-Fortes sur Paris)
1852
from the Etchings of Paris (Eaux-Fortes sur Paris) series (1852–54)
- Medium
- etching
- Measurements
- 16.5 × 12.6 cm (plate) 28.5 × 20.8 cm (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Schneiderman 22 I
- Edition
- 1st of 2 states
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- Gift of Jacobus Francis van Breda and Helen Mary Cooley through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program, 2024
- Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Charles Meryon was one of the most significant artists associated with the mid nineteenth–century etching revival in France. He devoted himself entirely to drawing and printmaking, creating iconic etchings of the city of Paris at a time of great transition for the capital. Whole areas of medieval Paris were being modernised in the 1850s as part of the public works program implemented by Baron Haussmann. In his best-known album, Etchings of Paris, which was inspired in part by the novels and poetry of Victor Hugo, Meryon recorded monuments of the old city that were soon to disappear.