Statue of Clovis, Church of Sainte-Clotilde, Paris
1856
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image: 35.8 x 18.8 cm (14 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.) mount: 60.5 x 43.5 cm (23 13/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
Accession Number
2011.49.1
Rights
Public Domain
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...