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Passage Saint-Benoît (sixth arrondissement)

Charles Marville French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 692

The motif of an opening or a “window” at the back of the picture appears in many compositions, and, like the small streets and alleys themselves, serves to connect the immediate foreground subject with other spaces just at the edge of the camera’s reach.

Passage Saint-Benoît (sixth arrondissement), Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris), Albumen silver print from glass negative

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