Statue of Clovis, Church of Sainte-Clotilde, Paris
Charles Marville
1856
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 35.8 x 18.8 cm (14 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.) mount: 60.5 x 43.5 cm (23 13/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
Accession Number
2011.49.1
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...