Charles Marville
Porte Dauphine, Château de Fontainebleau

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Porte Dauphine, Château de Fontainebleau
Date1854
MediumSalted paper print from paper negative
DimensionsImage: 13 3/4 × 10 1/16 in. (34.9 × 25.6 cm)
Sheet: 13 13/16 × 10 3/16 in. (35.1 × 25.8 cm)
Mount: 14 7/16 × 10 13/16 in. (36.7 × 27.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by James Edward Maloney
Object number2022.23
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

While Charles Marville is best known for his photographs of the transformation of Paris by Baron Haussmann during the 1860s, he established his reputation during the 1850s with views of cathedrals, chateaux, and other historic architecture in France and Germany. Unlike the highly detailed, crystal clear later views of Paris made with glass negatives and printed on albumen paper, his early photographs are salted paper prints from paper negatives and exhibit a fibrous texture that gives them a softer feel, thought by many to be more desirable, more closely allied with the traditional graphic arts.


Provenance[Andre Jammes, Paris]; [Vintage Works, Ltd., Chalfont, Pennsylvania]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in the negative along right edge: 639.
Inscribed in pencil on mount, recto, BRC: Fontainebleau
Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, top left diagonally: 15412
Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, upper left: CH Marville
Stamped in blue ink, mount verso, top right partially cut off and blurred: [illegible] // [illegible] // PARIS // [illegible]
Inscribed in pencil, mount verso, upper right, erased: [arrow] // Tarpon [?] // [illegible]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, lower left: 26210
Inscribed in pencil, verso, bottom left corner: 63

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