Percement de l'avenue de l'Opéra: Butte des Moulins (Construction of the avenue de l'Opéra: Butte des Moulins)
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.The Butte des Moulins (“windmill hill”) was a small hill—part natural, part built up—that had existed in Paris since ancient times. Dotted with windmills, the working-class neighborhood was dominated by small trades until the mid-1870s, when its population was cleared and the hill was leveled to construct the avenue de l’Opéra, which would become celebrated as the most glamorous street in Paris.
Artwork Details
- Title: Percement de l'avenue de l'Opéra: Butte des Moulins (Construction of the avenue de l'Opéra: Butte des Moulins)
- Artist: Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris)
- Date: December 1876
- Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
- Dimensions: image: 20.5 x 36.1 cm (8 1/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Musée Carnavalet, Paris
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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