Le Pont au Change
While Paris was becoming a modern European city, Meryon clung to the sights of its oldest structures, fixing them in etching. Like 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.
Artwork Details
- Title:Le Pont au Change
- Series/Portfolio:Etchings of Paris
- Artist:Charles Meryon (French, 1821–1868)
- Date:1854
- Medium:Etching with additions in graphite; seventh state
- Dimensions:Sheet: 7 3/16 x 14 1/16 in. (18.2 x 35.7 cm)
Plate: 6 1/8 x 13 1/16 in. (15.6 x 33.2 cm) - Classification:Prints
- Credit Line:Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966
- Object Number:67.630.9
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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