Market of the Patriarchs (Marché des Patriarches)
Charles Marville
c. 1862
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 33.9 × 26.8 cm (13 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.); Mount: 56.6 × 39.9 cm (22 5/16 × 15 3/4 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
212159
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...