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The printer Valère Maxime being presented to King Louis XI, after an earlier miniature
ART BY: Charles Meryon
The printer Valère Maxime being presented to King Louis XI, after an earlier miniature
ART BY: Charles Meryon
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The printer Valère Maxime being presented to King Louis XI, after an earlier miniature is an etching and drypoint; fourth state of seven (schneiderman) by Charles Meryon (1821–1868), dated 1860. The artist is catalogued as French. The source scan comes from the The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the file offered here measures 3046 × 2643 px (2.0 MB). It is filed under Prints and Realism, in landscape format. Archive Lane holds 447 works by Charles Meryon, a French artist.
Charles Meryon was a French artist who worked almost entirely in etching, as he had colour blindness. Although now little-known in the English-speaking world, he is generally recognised as the most significant etcher of 19th century France.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Charles Meryon →
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