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
Rights
Public Domain
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...