Charles Delahaye
Charles Marville
c. 1857
Medium
albumen-coated salted paper print
Dimensions
image (oval): 18.7 x 14.9 cm (7 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.) mount: 45.1 x 31.6 cm (17 3/4 x 12 7/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Diana and Mallory Walker Fund
Accession Number
2011.89.1
About the Artist
Charles Marville · 1813–1879
**Charles Marville**, born Charles François Bossu on July 17, 1813, in Paris, adopted his professional pseudonym around 1832 to avoid the stigma of "bossu," meaning hunchback in French. Trained as a painter, engraver, and illustrator, he spent nearly two decades producing woodblock illustrations for books and magazines before embracing photography around 1850. His transition coincided with the med...