id: 168598 accession number: 2010.320 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.320 updated: 2024-03-26 02:01:23.655000 Rue Jean-de-Beauvais. Vue prise de la rue des Écoles vers la boulevard Saint-Germain, en travaux, 1865–1869. Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 34 x 26.7 cm (13 3/8 x 10 1/2 in.); border: 45.9 x 33.4 cm (18 1/16 x 13 1/8 in.); paper: 60.3 x 42.5 cm (23 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.); matted: 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Howard Greenberg, Robert Hershkowitz, Charles Isaacs and Hans P. Kraus, Jr. in honor of Tom Hinson 2010.320 title: Rue Jean-de-Beauvais. Vue prise de la rue des Écoles vers la boulevard Saint-Germain, en travaux title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1865–1869 creation date earliest: 1865 creation date latest: 1869 current location: creditline: Gift of Howard Greenberg, Robert Hershkowitz, Charles Isaacs and Hans P. Kraus, Jr. in honor of Tom Hinson 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: 34 x 26.7 cm (13 3/8 x 10 1/2 in.); Border: 45.9 x 33.4 cm (18 1/16 x 13 1/8 in.); Paper: 60.3 x 42.5 cm (23 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.); Matted: 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "36" Written in pencil on lower left corner of mount: "R 11 36j" Written in pencil on lower right area of mount: "Rue Jean de Beauvais de la rue des Ecoles (script)" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Dasté Booksellers, Paris; Sotheby's Paris [March 21, 2002 (lot 143)]; Howard Greeberg Gallery, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.320/2010.320_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.320/2010.320_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.320/2010.320_full.tif