[Photography- Charles Marville, 12 Large Albumen Prints (Folio Size] 12 Very Large Original Charles Marville Albumen Prints

Offered here are 12 very large (10æx14º") mounted albumen photographs of wall paintings in an elegant French salle. Most mount cards bear Marville's embossed stamp. Charles Marville, the pseudonym of Charles FranÁois Bossu (1813 - 1879), worked as an illustrator before taking up photography around 1850. He mainly photographed architecture, landscapes and the urban environment. His rst important body of work ó a series of photographs of old Paris ó was commissioned in 1864 by the Parisian government agency on historic works (under the aegis of Baron Georges-EugËne Haussmann, who designed the urban plan for Paris). For this project, Marville made photographs of the narrow streets and crumbling buildings of the pre-modern city at the very moment they were slated for demolition. Known as the "Album du Vieux Paris," the complete series of photographs is held by the MusÈe Carnavalet, Paris. Marville expanded his practice by focusing on two areas: reproductions of artworks (including a signi cant number focused on the masterworks of the French painter Jean-Dominique Ingres); and photographs of Parisian facades for use by professional architects. A few spots of soiling and staining, occasional light foxing, some photographs a bit faded.

Price: $2,500.00   Item #6237