House with a Turret, No. 22 Street of the School of Medicine
1861 · etching
Meryon, House with a Turret, No. 22 Street of the School of Medicine, 1861. etching.
The Cleveland Museum of Art · The Milton Curtiss Rose Collection in memory of Evelyn Curtiss Rose
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.
