Charles Marville
CHARLES MARVILLE
Grande Cour du Chateau D’Heidelberg (Great Yard of the Castle of Heidelberg), ca. 1853, salt print, paper negative, ca. 1853, 9 3/4" x 13 1/2".
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CHARLES MARVILLE
“Chalon sur Saone”, 1850’s, salt print, paper negative, ca.
1850’s, 6 1/4 x 8 1/4. |
CHARLES MARVILLE
Sculpture of an Angel in a Studio, France, ca. 1864, albumen print, ca. 1860s,
8 1/2 x 5 1/4. |
CHARLES MARVILLE
“Statue of St. Jacque, Paris Eglise de la Sainte-Chapelle”, ca. 1851-52, salt print, paper negative, ca. 1851-52, 13 3/4" x 10 1/8". |
CHARLES MARVILLE
“Landscape wih Pollarded Trees”, ca. 1855-1864, albumen print from waxed paper neg., 10 1/4" x 14". |
CHARLES MARVILLE
Trees, ca. 1855, albumen, paper negative, 10 1/2" x 8". |
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Charles Marville, French, 1816-ca. 1880
Charles Marville was a painter and a lithographic artist, but he is most well
known for his photographs of Paris in the 1860s. Unfortunately, there is not
much information on Marville's life other than the impressive body of work he
left behind. Sometime in the1850s Marville was asked to document the old quarters
of the French capital by the government's Commission for Monumental Historical
Monuments. Marville purposely took the photographs of Paris's architecture and
streets scenes when it was raining, so that the soft diffused light mixed with
the rain on the cobblestone produced a picturesque image that elicited a feeling
of perfection. One of Marville's good friends was Blanquart-Evrard and through
the years he published many of Marville's images, including a group of his negatives
of France and Germany in the album Art Religieux in 1854.
It has been said that Marville accomplished "documentary perfection" with his
images of Paris before it was destroyed by Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann's
urban renewal projects. Marville's body of photographs is one of the few records
left of Paris before 1870. Marville's work can be found in collections at the
IMP/GEH in Rochester, NY, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in
Paris. A book containing many works by Marville entitled, Marville Paris was
published by Hazan in 1994.
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