["Industry" by Louis Petitot, Pont du Carrousel, Paris]

Charles Marville

1852 · Salted paper print from paper negative · Photographs

Petitot’s allegory of industry was one of four sculptures that had been placed on the Pont du Carrousel, a bridge spanning the Seine, only five years before Marville made this view. The formality of the monument is somewhat mitigated by the makeshift stall displaying goods for sale—itself a tiny monument to industriousness—nestled in the niche below.

Artist

Charles Marville

Date

1852

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Kravis Gift, 2005