Homme allongé au pied d'un chàtaignier
Medium
Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative
Dimensions
20.9 x 16.2 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946
Accession Number
46.122.3
Tags
About the Artist
Charles Marville|Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille · 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...