Candélabre du Palais de l’Industrie
Charles Marville
1865–1869
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 35.5 × 18 cm (14 × 7 1/16 in.) mount: 62 × 43.7 cm (24 7/16 × 17 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift from the collection of Jeffrey Hugh Newman
Accession Number
2022.171.1
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...