Charles Meryon
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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 si
Portrait of Meryon, 1853 etching by Félix Bracquemond
Le Stryge (The Gargoyle or The Vampire), 1853. Now Meryon's most famous print, though somewhat untypical.
Meryon by Léopold Flameng, 1858, print based on a drawing made the night before he entered the asylum
Drawing made in Tahiti, 1844–45
Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne
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Marc-Joseph Marion "Macé" du Fresne was a French privateer, East India captain, and explorer. The expedition he led to find the hypothetical Terra Australis in 1771 made important geographic discoveri
Charles Meryon
…Captain Cook (in Hawaii in 1779). At least two finished pastel drawings survive from this period: a dramatic whaling scene, and the Assassination of Captain Marion du Fresne in New Zealand (by Maoris in 1772, at the Bay of Islands, killing 27 in total). Meryon knew the setting well, and the work was exhibited in the annual…
Memorial fountain in Hobart for the bicentenary of the 1772 sighting of Tasmania.
Monument to the memory of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and his party at Te Hue Bay, "Assassination cove".
Romantic imagining of the killing of Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne.