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Avenue du Commandeur (de la rue d’Alésia) (fourteenth arrondissement)

1877–1878
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 691
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.
With their half-built foregrounds, struggling vegetation, and inert figures (such as the one posed against the wall), Marville’s photographs of the periphery of Paris convey the sense of neighborhoods in transition. Even as the city trumpeted its glories at the 1878 Exposition Universelle, the outskirts became a familiar subject in art and literature, serving as convenient shorthand for the dislocation and exile many Parisians experienced in their changed city.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Avenue du Commandeur (de la rue d’Alésia) (fourteenth arrondissement)
  • Artist: Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris)
  • Date: 1877–1878
  • Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
  • Dimensions:

    image: 23 x 36.1 cm (9 1/16 x 14 3/16 in.)

  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Musée Carnavalet, Paris
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs