Meryon
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While paris was becoming a modern european city, meryon clung to the sights of its oldest structures, fixing them in etching16 biography etcher and draughtsman; the illegitimate son of an english physician charles lewis meryon () and a dancer at the paris opéra, narcisse chaspoux; known for his views of paris that document the transformation of the city under the helm of baron haussmann; meryon suffered from psychological issues throughout his life and from was frequently held at the asylum of charenton, where he died inare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikia beautiful impression on laid paper, with wide marginsour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitelike the drowning man in the foreground of this print, the artist found his world caving in, and as his sanity dimmed the skies in his prints filled with flying fish, and visions like those of the charioteer, serpent, and fragments of female anatomy penciled into clouds above the seine(source: the met) from the series "eaux-fortes sur paris", nthe signatures are rather faint, this might be a later editioncatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
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