[The Hötel de Ville after the Commune]

Hippolyte-Auguste Collard

1871 · Albumen silver print from glass negative · Photographs

Locals and tourists alike gawked at the remains of the Paris city hall, built beginning in 1532 and completed nearly a century later. Along with treasured paintings and sculptural decoration, historically precious archives of the City of Paris were forever lost when the building was set ablaze in May 1871. A reconstruction of the Hôtel de Ville, begun in 1874 and completed a decade later, stands on the same site today.

Artist

Hippolyte-Auguste Collard

Date

1871

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959