Spire of the Chapel of College St. Dizier (Haute Marne)
Charles Marville
before 1870
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 · 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...