Arts et Métiers (Ancien Modèle)
1864
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 36.6 x 24.1 cm (14 7/16 x 9 1/2 in.) Mount: 63 x 45 cm (24 13/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2007
Accession Number
2007.167
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Marville · 1813–1879
**Charles Marville**, born Charles François Bossu on July 17, 1813, in Paris, adopted his professional pseudonym around 1832 to avoid the stigma of "bossu," meaning hunchback in French. Trained as a painter, engraver, and illustrator, he spent nearly two decades producing woodblock illustrations for books and magazines before embracing photography around 1850. His transition coincided with the med...