Rue du Haut-Pave (Pantheon in Distance)
1865–69
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 20.6 x 37 cm (8 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.) Mount: 42.4 x 50.5 cm (16 11/16 x 19 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Howard Greenberg, Paula and Robert Hershkowitz, Charles Isaacs, and Hans P. Kraus Jr., in honor of Philippe de Montebello, 2008
Accession Number
2008.668
Tags
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...