# Charles Meryon artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-19T08:51:37.487Z
Quality: high confidence, strong sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: French
- Common media: Etching, Drypoint, Engraving, Lithography, Drawing and painting

## Portrait

![Charles Meryon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/L%C3%A9opold_Flameng_-_Charles_Meryon.jpg)
Léopold Flameng · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%C3%A9opold_Flameng_-_Charles_Meryon.jpg

## About Charles Meryon

Charles Meryon (1821–1868) was a French artist best known for his highly distinctive etchings of Paris. His practice is closely associated with printmaking, especially etching and drypoint, while catalogued works also include drawing, painting, engraving, and lithography. Meryon repeatedly examined the city’s streets, bridges, and historic architecture, with views of Notre-Dame and other Paris landmarks forming an important part of the work encountered by collectors. His images combine precise observation of urban structures with an atmospheric, sometimes visionary interpretation of the nineteenth-century city. Auction and museum records commonly identify him through the accented name Charles Méryon, so both spellings are useful when searching collections and sale catalogues. Collectors may encounter individual impressions, edition variants, and works on paper whose value depends on the object’s exact state, condition, provenance, and attribution.

## Common works and media

Commonly encountered works include etchings, drypoints, engravings, lithographs, drawings, and paintings. The strongest recurring subject group is nineteenth-century Paris: streets, bridges, historic buildings, Notre-Dame, and other architectural views. Auction listings may describe individual impressions or states of a print, sometimes with edition, inscription, paper, or provenance details. These distinctions are important because two impressions bearing the same title may differ in rarity, condition, margins, surface quality, or printing history. Collectors may also encounter works grouped as prints and multiples, works on paper, or fine art rather than under a single narrow category.

## Market and appraisal context

Charles Meryon is encountered most often in the market through prints and works on paper, particularly etchings and related graphic techniques. Appraisal depends on the specific medium, dimensions, date, state or impression, condition, restoration, margins, inscriptions, and edition information. Provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, and confidence in attribution can also materially affect an individual work. Subject matter matters as well: recognizable Paris views and architectural subjects may be compared with similar examples, but a broad artist-level median cannot substitute for object-specific research. Appraisily’s public records show auction activity across multiple categories and a wide observed price range; these records should be treated as comparable-sale evidence rather than a price prediction.

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q247505
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/71573863/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500001302
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/63161
- Encyclopædia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Meryon
- National Gallery of Art: https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.2421.html
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb13755054z
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/027272567
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/meryon-charles-18211868
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/charles-meryon/