Cloud Study, Paris
Charles Marville
1856–1857
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 15.24 × 21.8 cm (6 × 8 9/16 in.) sheet: 19.05 × 21.59 cm (7 1/2 × 8 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Stephen G. Stein
Accession Number
2022.146.1
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...