Cour Saint-Guillaume
1866–1867
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 34.2 x 27.2 cm (13 7/16 x 10 11/16 in.) Mount: 62.9 x 45.2 cm (24 3/4 x 17 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.378
Tags
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...