Le Chat Momifié (trouvé dans les fouilles de Saint-Germain-en-Laye)
ca. 1862
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 11 1/4 × 10 15/16 in. (28.6 × 27.8 cm) Sheet: 11 1/4 × 10 15/16 in. (28.6 × 27.8 cm) Mount: 19 13/16 in. × 14 in. (50.3 × 35.5 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.205
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...