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[Cloud Study, Paris]

1856–1857
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 852

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Cloud Study, Paris]
  • Artist: Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris)
  • Date: 1856–1857
  • Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
  • Dimensions: 16.7 x 20.6 cm. (6 9/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1987
  • Object Number: 1987.1094
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs
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