Charles Meryon in his madness, the night before his removal to the asylum of Charenton. Heliogravure after L. Flameng, 1858.

Selected images from this work

Meryon is shown sitting up on a bed, tousle-haired, wearing a smock and casting a bold shadow on the wall behind him

[Paris], 1858.

1 print : heliogravure ; platemark 22.5 x 27.3 cm

Charles Meryon. 1858. 11 Mai 1858. Lep. Flameng Bears monogram: CM surmounting a circle, apparently Meryon's own, placed above his name

John M. MacGregor, The discovery of the art of the insane, Princeton 1989, pp. 84-86, repr. p. 84

Wellcome Collection 38684i

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