Rue de la Lingerie, de la rue Berger

Charles Marville

1860s–70s

Rue de la Lingerie, de la rue Berger by Charles Marville

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 · 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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