Spire of the Chapel of College St. Dizier (Haute Marne)

Charles Marville

before 1870

Spire of the Chapel of College St. Dizier (Haute Marne) by Charles Marville

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Dimensions

14 1/4 x 9 7/8

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gilman Collection, Purchase, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2005

Accession Number

2005.100.1366

About the Artist

Charles Marville · 18131879

**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...

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