id: 439499 accession number: 2021.64 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.64 updated: 2024-03-26 02:02:17.018000 La Belle Jardinère: le magasin de la rue de la Cité pendant sa demolition, Paris, 1864–66. Attributed to Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879). Albumen print from collodion negative; image: 22.9 x 34.6 cm (9 x 13 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2021.64 title: La Belle Jardinère: le magasin de la rue de la Cité pendant sa demolition, Paris title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1864–66 creation date earliest: 1864 creation date latest: 1866 current location: creditline: Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg copyright: --- culture: France technique: albumen print from collodion negative department: Photography collection: PH - French 19th Century 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: 22.9 x 34.6 cm (9 x 13 5/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY date: ?-2021 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: June 7, 2021 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.64/2021.64_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.64/2021.64_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.64/2021.64_full.tif