1861
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Tourelle, Rue de l'École de Médecine, 22, Paris is a 1861 ink by Charles Meryon, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a narrow Paris street with tall, crooked buildings. A horse-drawn carriage waits near a tower-like structure with a pointed roof. People in old-fashioned clothes stand around, some watching the carriage. The buildings have lots of small windows and rough stone walls. The artist used fine lines to show every brick and shadow. This kind of careful drawing was often used to capture real city life in the 1800s. Check out etching, drypoint, aquatint to see how artists create these detailed prints.
Charles Meryon (sometimes Méryon, 23 November 1821 – 14 February 1868) was a French artist who worked almost entirely in etching, as he had colour blindness.
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