Rue de la Monnaie
| Artist | Charles Marville (French, 1816–1879) |
|---|---|
| Title | Rue de la Monnaie |
| Date | 1865 |
| Medium | Albumen print |
| Dimensions | Image: 11 5/16 × 10 11/16 in. (28.7 × 27.1 cm) Sheet: 11 5/16 × 10 11/16 in. (28.7 × 27.1 cm) Mount: 23 7/8 × 16 1/4 in. (60.6 × 41.3 cm) |
| Credit Line | Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 82.9.1 |
| This artwork is currently off display. You may be able to see this artwork by filling out an art viewing room request. | |
This image is a cityscape depicted from street level. In the foreground, two streets intersect, and one street extends into the background near the center.
Originally trained as a painter, Charles Marville was commissioned in the 1850s to document the old sections of Paris before Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann cut great boulevards through them. Marville had a taste for the picturesque and great facility with the photographic medium. His use of light and shadow and his fondness for the old streets of Paris showed in his sympathetic, yet dignified images. There is a haunting stillness in images like this one in the 1st arrondissement, due to the inability of the camera’s long exposures to capture movement, thus causing the blurring of people or carriages in the street.
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"Rue de la Monnaie | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2025. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=82.9.1