Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012614Rue Jean-de-Beauvais. Vue prise de la rue des Écoles vers la boulevard Saint-Germain, en travaux
About the Artwork
Jean-de-Beauvais Street dates back to the 1300s. Stairs rather than a traffic intersection mark where it meets the rue des Écoles, which is seen in the foreground and is higher in elevation. In the background, the light area is the intersection of rue Jean-de-Beauvais with the Boulevard Saint-Germain, seen here under construction. Haussmann strung together and widened numerous narrow older streets to form the long, airy boulevard. Charles Marville makes our eye traverse the dark, narrow medieval street before we emerge into the sunlight of the modern thoroughfare.
Inscriptions
Written in pencil on recto of mount: "36" Written in pencil on lower left corner of mount: "R 11 36j" Written in pencil on lower right area of mount: "Rue Jean de Beauvais de la rue des Ecoles (script)"
Provenance
Dasté Booksellers, Paris; Sotheby's Paris [March 21, 2002 (lot 143)]; Howard Greeberg Gallery, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art
Exhibition history
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 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879)
- Date
- 1865–69
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 34 x 26.7 cm (13 3/8 x 10 1/2 in.); Border: 45.9 x 33.4 cm (18 1/16 x 13 1/8 in.); Paper: 60.3 x 42.5 cm (23 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.); Matted: 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Howard Greenberg, Robert Hershkowitz, Charles Isaacs and Hans P. Kraus Jr. in honor of Tom Hinson
- Accession no.
- 2010.320
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