Bois de Boulogne
1858
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 20.7 × 34.4 cm (8 1/8 × 13 9/16 in.) mount: 39.8 × 49.4 cm (15 11/16 × 19 7/16 in.) overall: 45.72 × 55.88 cm (18 × 22 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.103
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...