Untitled, from the series Bois de Boulogne"
Charles Marville
c. 1850
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image: 23.4 × 35.8 cm (9 1/4 × 14 1/8 in.); Paper: 41.2 × 58.2 cm (16 1/4 × 22 15/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
68044
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...