[Cloud Study over Paris]
Charles Marville
1856–1857
![[Cloud Study over Paris] by Charles Marville](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/cloud-study-over-paris-265131.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
16.7 x 20.6 cm. (6 9/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1987
Accession Number
1987.1094
Tags
ParisCitiesSkyClouds
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...