About this artwork
Charles Marville is best known for his photographs of Paris at a time of enormous change, documenting its transformation from a dark, crowded city into one of grand boulevards and public parks. This picture, made in the year Marville began taking photographs, shows the monumental fountain just outside the church of Saint-Sulpice, which had been completed only a few years earlier. Marville produced his negative on paper, which lends the image a grainy softness that many photographers in his day prized over the sharper quality found in metal-plate daguerreotypes and glass negatives.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Charles Marville
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Title
- Fountain at St. Sulpice
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Origin
- France
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Date
- Made 1851
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Medium
- Salted paper print
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Dimensions
- 20.7 × 15.8 cm (image/paper); 21.8 × 16.7 cm (first mount); 49.4 × 39.3 cm (second mount)
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Credit Line
- Mary and Leigh Block and Nagel Family Funds
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Reference Number
- 2011.127
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/209683/manifest.json
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