Grotto, Mare aux Biches, Bois de Boulogne
Charles Marville
1858–1860
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 26.04 × 35.56 cm (10 1/4 × 14 in.) mount: 43.18 × 60.33 cm (17 × 23 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Stephen G. Stein
Accession Number
2020.29.106
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...