id:			161861
accession number:	2001.149
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2001.149
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:44.535000

Tympanum, Strasbourg Cathedral, c. 1863. Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 27.2 x 35.7 cm (10 11/16 x 14 1/16 in.); mounted: 43.4 x 62.1 cm (17 1/16 x 24 7/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 2001.149

title:				Tympanum, Strasbourg Cathedral
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creation date:			c. 1863
creation date earliest:		1858
creation date latest:		1868
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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: 27.2 x 35.7 cm (10 11/16 x 14 1/16 in.); Mounted: 43.4 x 62.1 cm (17 1/16 x 24 7/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto:  "Strasbourg/tympau(?) de la Chapelle St. Vincent de Paul."  Embossed on mount:  "CH MARVILLE/PHOTOGRAPHE/DU MUSEE IMPERIAL/DU LOUVRE"
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