Hôtel de la Marine
Charles Marville
1864–1870
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 36.2 x 23.5 cm (14 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.) mount: 60.3 x 45.1 cm (23 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Diana and Mallory Walker Fund
Accession Number
2006.23.1
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...