id:			154075
accession number:	1988.191
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.191
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:02.890000

Sky Study, Paris, 1856–57. Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 15.3 x 21.4 cm (6 x 8 7/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1988.191

title:				Sky Study, Paris
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creation date:			1856–57
creation date earliest:		1856
creation date latest:		1857
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	albumen print from wet collodion negative
department:	Photography
collection:	Photography
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879)  - artist
At the invitation of the city of Paris, photographer Charles Marville was among the first to document the ancient quarters of his birthplace. His views, taken in the late 1850s, were intended to record the many buildings and neighborhoods ultimately destroyed by Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's urban planning project that would create the boulevards and open spaces of modern Paris. While Marville's survey of the city, extensive and thorough in scope, prefigured other important efforts of its kind, it is distinguished by its emotional accessibility. His work beautifully reveals a Paris that has long disappeared. Originally trained as a painter and illustrator, Marville worked with both calotype and glass plate negatives. He photographed in France, Italy, Germany, and Algeria, becoming most well known for his architectural imagery but also producing acclaimed landscapes and studies of trees. Many of Marville's early views, often considered his best, were included in the albums of Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard before the printer's establishment in Lille closed in 1855. Named official photographer of Paris in 1862, Marville also served as photographer to the Imperial Museum of the Louvre and to King Vittorio Emmanuelle of Italy. T.W.F.
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measurements: Image: 15.3 x 21.4 cm (6 x 8 7/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "1 [circled] 1 / no5 [boxed] / F [circled]"; in pencil on verso: "5 [circled]"; "#301"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   1996-11-24T05:00:00
	<i>Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).

	title:		Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2005-02-26T00:00:00
	<i>Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 26-June 16, 2005).

	title:		France at the Dawn of Photography
	opening date:   2009-10-04T00:00:00
	<i>France at the Dawn of Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010).

	title:		Stories From Storage
	opening date:   2021-02-07T05:00:00
	<i>Stories From Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>The World Seen Anew: English and French Photographs of the 1850s. </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 29-August 26, 1990).', 'opening_date': '1990-06-29T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Etudes de Ciels. </em>Galerie Octant, Paris, France (November 3-December 22, 1978).', 'opening_date': '1978-11-03T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Alain Paviot, Paris, France
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	(Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY)
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 29, 1989
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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 231
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IMAGES

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