Rue de la Bûcherie, du cul de sac Saint-Ambroise (fifth arrondissement)
Charles Marville
1866–1868
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 32 x 27.1 cm (12 5/8 x 10 11/16 in.) mount: 60 x 42.5 cm (23 5/8 x 16 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert B. Menschel Fund
Accession Number
2002.144.1
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...