 Charles Marville, Horse Market, 1871 (112 KB) |
In 1862, the City of Paris commissioned Marville to document the civic spaces that would eventually disappear under architect Baron Von Haussmann's epic transformation of the city. Similarly, Eugene Atget worked for various City bureaus to document and preserve the integrated rural and urban sites of Paris that were quickly disappearing. Charles Marville was born in Paris in 1816. He lived in France and traveled to Italy, Germany, and Algeria. He was a painter and also a landscape and architectural photographer. He died in 1879. |
| Charles Marville, Horse Market, 1871 |  |
