Art, literature & history
La loi lunaire, No 1 (Lunar Law, No 1)
1856
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching, printed on laid paper; third state of three
- Dimensions
- plate: 6 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (15.9 x 24 cm)
- Collection no.
- 17.78.50
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Charles Meryon. La loi lunaire, No 1 (Lunar Law, No 1). Charles Meryon; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1917. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
La loi lunaire, No 1 (Lunar Law, No 1) — Charles Meryon. 1856.
Medium: Etching, printed on laid paper; third state of three. Dimensions: plate: 6 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (15.9 x 24 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1917.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.