Salle des Cariatides, au Musée du Louvre
c. 1851
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 15.7 × 21.2 cm (6 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.) page size: 33.5 × 51.1 cm (13 3/16 × 20 1/8 in.) overall: 40.64 × 55.88 cm (16 × 22 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.101
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...