Rue de la Bûcherie, du cul de sac Saint-Ambroise (fifth arrondissement)

Charles Marville

1866–1868

Rue de la Bûcherie, du cul de sac Saint-Ambroise (fifth arrondissement) by Charles Marville

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 · 18131879

**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...

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