Marché aux veaux (Calf Market) (fifth arrondissement)
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Figures are relatively rare in Marville’s street photographs because inhabitants of the city seldom stood still long enough during an exposure (roughly three to fifteen seconds) to register on a negative. On occasion Marville deliberately posed one of his assistants in
the otherwise lonely stretches of abandoned structures, recalling the theme of the romantic wanderer contemplating the remnants
of earlier civilizations but also the modern notion of the flâneur, the disengaged observer of the rapidly transforming city.
the otherwise lonely stretches of abandoned structures, recalling the theme of the romantic wanderer contemplating the remnants
of earlier civilizations but also the modern notion of the flâneur, the disengaged observer of the rapidly transforming city.
Artwork Details
- Title: Marché aux veaux (Calf Market) (fifth arrondissement)
- Artist: Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris)
- Date: ca. 1865
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions:
image: 26.5 x 36.7 cm (10 7/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Musée Carnavalet, Paris
- Curatorial Department: Photographs