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The Seine from the Pont du Carrousel, Looking toward Notre Dame
Charles Marville French
Views of Paris from the bridges of the Seine were popular in mid-nineteenth-century France, in part thanks to the expanding genre of illustrated travel literature. This study recalls the masthead Marville had designed in 1843 for the journal L’Illustration. The photograph offers both an overall harmony and a rich cataloguing of detail, from the sacks on the quay awaiting transport and the scaffolding on
the Louvre at left to the piles of quarried stone near the Institut de France at right. Although panoramic cameras were in use at the time, Marville made this print by joining two negatives, made side by side, and printing them together as a single seamless image.
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