Rue Chartière (impasse Chartière) de la rue de Reims
1865/69
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 30.3 × 27.1 cm (11 15/16 × 10 11/16 in.); First mount: 37.7 × 33.5 cm (14 7/8 × 13 1/4 in.); Second mount: 60 × 42.8 cm (23 5/8 × 16 7/8 in.)
Classification
albumen print from collodion negative
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
181557
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...