Molière's Tomb, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris
1854 · Etching in warm black on verdâtre (greenish) laid paper · Image: 6.8 × 7 cm (2 11/16 × 2 13/16 in.); Plate: 6.8 × 7 cm (2 11/16 × 2 13/16 in.); Sheet: 17.4 × 15.4 cm (6 7/8 × 6 1/8 in.)
Meryon, Molière's Tomb, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, 1854. Etching in warm black on verdâtre (greenish) laid paper.
The Art Institute of Chicago · Elizabeth Hammond Stickney Collection
How to look at a Meryon
- Half-close your eyes until the lines vanish. Count the values that remain. Then open them and count the layers that made each one.
- Follow the eye level across the Apse print: the bridge, the quay and the figures all confirm it.
- Find the one place where the deepest black touches untouched paper. That is the focal point.
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