Charles Delahaye
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 21.6 x 15.9 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.) Mount: 45 x 31.5 cm (17 11/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg and Christian Keesee Charitable Trust Gifts, 2011
Accession Number
2011.65
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Marville|Charles Hippolyte Delahaye · 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...