id: 154674 accession number: 1989.27 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.27 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:05.816000 View of the Small Grotto toward the Deer Pond, Bois de Boulogne, 1858. Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 25.1 x 36.4 cm (9 7/8 x 14 5/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund 1989.27 title: View of the Small Grotto toward the Deer Pond, Bois de Boulogne title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1858 creation date earliest: 1858 creation date latest: 1858 current location: creditline: James Parmelee Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Image: 25.1 x 36.4 cm (9 7/8 x 14 5/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil [erased] on recto: "No 46"; written in pencil on verso: "F2 [crossed out] / H2 / L2" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1989 opening date: 1990-02-06T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990). title: Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum's Collection opening date: 2000-08-12T00:00:00 Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum's Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 12, 2000-January 3, 2001). title: Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2005-02-26T00:00:00 Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 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 France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990, "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 68, no. 46.', 'opening_date': '1990-02-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; August 12, 2000 - January 3, 2001. "Pioneers of Landscape Photography from the Museum\'s Collection."', 'opening_date': '2000-08-12T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 26 - June 16, 2005 . "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art".', 'opening_date': '2005-02-26T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/04/2009 - 01/24/2010); "France at the Dawn of Photography"', 'opening_date': '2009-10-04T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc.), New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: March 27, 1989 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 232 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.27/1989.27_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.27/1989.27_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.27/1989.27_full.tif