[Rue de Constantine]

Charles Marville

1866 · Albumen silver print from glass negative · Photographs

Trained as a painter and an illustrator, Marville began photographing in 1851, and in 1862 he was named "photographer of the city of Paris." In the service of Napoleon III, he photographed Baron Haussmann's vast program of demolition and construction in Paris. Although he also photographed the modern city that replaced old Paris, he is best known for his documents of the picturesque and insalubrious districts slated for destruction. Marville's photograph of the rue de Constantine shows an expectant moment prior to demolition on the Île de la Cité.

Artist

Charles Marville

Date

1866

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1986