Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève near the Intersection of Rue LaPlace (Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève prés de carrefour de la rue LaPlace)
1865/69
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 31.6 × 26.9 cm (12 1/2 × 10 5/8 in.); First mount: 38.7 × 33.4 cm (15 1/4 × 13 3/16 in.); Secondary support: 60 × 42.8 cm (23 3/4 × 16 7/8 in.)
Classification
albumen print from collodion negative
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
181558
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...