Charles Meryon's Graphic Risks.

The article offers information on French printmaker Charles Meryon's images in the mid-1850s that address financial speculation and risk, focusing on his series Eaux-fortes sur Paris, which depicts a parallel universe of Paris with a sense of dislocation. Topics include Meryon's tragic biography, critical reception by figures such as Théophile Gautier and Victor Hugo, and interpretations by Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, who saw Meryon's work as allegories for modernity.