id:			439500
accession number:	2021.65
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.65
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Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg (grotte de Marie de Médécis), c. 1850. Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879). Salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process; image: 20 x 15.9 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/4 in.); paper: 53.6 x 34.7 cm (21 1/8 x 13 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2021.65

title:				Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg (grotte de Marie de Médécis)
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creation date:			c. 1850
creation date earliest:		1845
creation date latest:		1855
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creditline:			Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
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culture:	France
technique:	Salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - French 19th Century
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: 20 x 15.9 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/4 in.); Paper: 53.6 x 34.7 cm (21 1/8 x 13 11/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Imprinted on recto: "Melanges Photographiques"
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	inscription:	Imprinted on recto: "Imprimerie Photographique de Blanquart-Evrard a Lille"
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	inscription:	Imprinted on recto: "36/Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg/(Grotte de Marie de Médicis)/Jacques de Brosse, 17em siecle"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "30/14"
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: "20.1 x 16/53.5x  34.5"
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PROVENANCE

	Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY
	date: ?-2021
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: June 7, 2021
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