Rue de la Lingerie, de la rue Berger
1860s–70s
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 8 3/8 × 14 1/2 in. (21.3 × 36.8 cm) Mount: 16 5/16 × 23 7/8 in. (41.4 × 60.6 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke Gift, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.1296
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...