Grotto in the Bois de Boulogne
Charles Marville
1858–1860
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 26.7 × 35.9 cm (10 1/2 × 14 1/8 in.) mount: 43.5 × 59.9 cm (17 1/8 × 23 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2014.111.1
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...