Cloud Study over the Pantheon, Paris
Charles Marville
1856
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 15.5 × 20.8 cm (6 1/8 × 8 3/16 in.) mount: 30.9 × 43.4 cm (12 3/16 × 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Diana and Mallory Walker
Accession Number
2018.9.1
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...