Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000373Opéra (Rostral Column)
About the Artwork
In the 1800s, gas lamps replaced the oil lights. When Napoleon III commissioned a new opera house in Paris in 1860, it was surrounded by a “Ring of Light,” including this column with three gas streetlights. The opera house became the setting for Gaston LeRoux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, which inspired the 1976 musical and 2004 film.
Provenance
c. 1990: Roxane Debuisson [1927–2018], purchased from a bookseller as part of an album, Paris, France Collection Debuisson, Paris, France ?–2006: (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) February 27, 2006–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010). France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879)
- Date
- c. 1875
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 37.7 x 26.7 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Mounted: 35.4 x 26.7 cm (13 15/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Purchase from the Karl B. Goldfield Trust
- Accession no.
- 2006.6
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