La Pompe Notre-Dame, Paris
1852 · Etching with drypoint on tan laid chine, hinged to ivory laid paper · Image: 17.2 × 25.3 cm (6 13/16 × 10 in.); Plate: 17.2 × 25.3 cm (6 13/16 × 10 in.); Primary support: 18.2 × 26 cm (7 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Secondary support: 23.1 × 32 cm (9 1/8 × 12 5/8 in.)
Meryon, La Pompe Notre-Dame, Paris, 1852. Etching with drypoint on tan laid chine, hinged to ivory laid paper.
The Art Institute of Chicago · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson
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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