Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012624Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg (grotte de Marie de Médécis)
About the Artwork
This fountain was part of those gardens. Charles Marville, who specialized in photographing landscapes, architecture, and urban views, made this photograph four decades after the fountain’s 1811 restoration, which added the white marble statue of Venus bathing. If you go to Paris now, you will see the 1864 restoration, which radically restructured it and moved it 100 feet to make way for a street.
Inscriptions
Imprinted on recto: "Melanges Photographiques"; Imprinted on recto: "Imprimerie Photographique de Blanquart-Evrard a Lille"; Imprinted on recto: "36/Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg/(Grotte de Marie de Médicis)/Jacques de Brosse, 17em siecle"; Written in pencil on verso: "30/14"; Written in pencil on verso: "20.1 x 16/53.5x 34.5"
Provenance
?-2021: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY June 7, 2021: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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
- c. 1850
- Medium
- Salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process
- Dimensions
- Image: 20 x 15.9 cm (7 7/8 x 6 1/4 in.); Paper: 53.6 x 34.7 cm (21 1/8 x 13 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
- Accession no.
- 2021.65
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