Le Pont au Change
Charles Meryon captures the gothic soul of 1850s Paris in this scene of the Pont au Change and the ominous Conciergerie prison, created just before the bridge was demolished for modern renovations. Suffering from red-green color blindness, Meryon mastered black-and-white etching to fill his skies with incredible, scratchy energy and architectural precision. It’s a poignant piece—Meryon eventually went mad with delusions of being a werewolf, making these ghostly images of a vanished city some of his final lucid works.
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