Rue du Chat-qui-Pêche (from the Rue de la Huchette)
Charles Marville
ca. 1868
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
35.9 x 27.2 cm (14 1/8 x 10 11/16 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Stein, 2010
Accession Number
2010.513.3
Tags
ParisBuildingsStreets
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...