Adolphe Terris
Vue des chantiers prise du milieu de la Rue Monbrion

ArtistFrench, 1820–1900
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Vue des chantiers prise du milieu de la Rue Monbrion
  • View of the Construction Sites Taken from the Middle of Rue Monbrion
  • from Album photographique des grands travaux de Marseille
DateJune 1863
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 14 3/16 × 15 11/16 in. (36 × 39.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 15 11/16 in. (36 × 39.9 cm)
Mount: 20 1/2 × 27 1/2 in. (52 × 69.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2022.699.2
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
Exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

In Marseille, as in Paris, major urban redesign was visited upon the city’s older neighborhoods during the Second Empire (1852–70). The construction of the broad Rue Impériale (now Rue de la République) connecting the old and new ports and the expansive Place Centrale midway along the boulevard required the demolition of 935 homes, the total or partial disappearance of 61 streets, and massive earthworks to level the hills along the route. Adolphe Terris was commissioned by the city to document both what would be destroyed and what would be built, along with the process of that transformation.


Provenance[Photo Vintage France, Arnaville, France]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black on the cover, recto, center: ALBUM PHOTOGRAPHIQUE // // DES GRANDS TRAVAUX DE MARSEILLE // // 1864
Printed in black, mount recto, top center: GRAND TRAVAUX DE MARSEILLE [emeblem] OUVERTURE DE LA RUE IMPERIALE
Printed in black, mount recto, lower right below image: a terris phot.
Printed in black, mount recto, bottom center: Vue des chantiers prise du milieu de la Rue Monbrion // JUIN 1863

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