Death's Hostel

Charles Meryon · 1854 · Art Institute of Chicago

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Maker: Charles Meryon, French, 1821-1868
Date: 1854
Medium: Etching in brown with two plates side-by-side on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: Image, left: 12.2 × 3.6 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Plate, left: 12.2 × 3.6 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Image, right: 12.1 × 3.5 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Plate, right: 12.1 × 3.5 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Sheet: 20 × 16.7 cm (7 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Place of origin: France
Held by: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view
Credit line: Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection

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Maker

Charles Meryon, French, 1821-1868

Date

1854

Medium

Etching in brown with two plates side-by-side on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Image, left: 12.2 × 3.6 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Plate, left: 12.2 × 3.6 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Image, right: 12.1 × 3.5 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Plate, right: 12.1 × 3.5 cm (4 13/16 × 1 7/16 in.); Sheet: 20 × 16.7 cm (7 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)

Place of origin

France

Held by

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago · Not on view

Credit line

Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection

See this work at Art Institute of Chicago

Image: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0