Feb 10, 2022 - Sale 2594

Sale 2594 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 6,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
CHARLES MARVILLE (1813-1879)
Rue des Déchargeurs, de la Rue de Rivoli. Albumen print, the image measuring 11 5/8x10 1/8 inches (29.5x25.7 cm.), the two-toned mount 24x16 1/4 inches (61x41.3 cm.), with Marville's Photographe Du Musée Impérial Du Louvre blind stamp and a location, in pencil, on mount recto. Circa 1865
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Around 1832 Parisian-born Charles-François Bossu (1813–1879) changed his unfortunate last name ("bossu" means hunchback in French) and adopted the pseudonym Marville, which also transformed his identity. By 1850 he began taking poetic photographs throughout Old Paris, a project that foreshadows the work of another great French artist, Eugène Atget.