Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012943Portico of the Château d'Anet, now at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
About the Artwork
Some buildings in Paris illustrate multiple layers of French history. This entrance was once part of the Château d’Anet, built in 1548–50 in northern France by King Henri II for his mistress. This section of the facade was rescued from a campaign during the French Revolution to destroy symbols of the former monarchy. It was moved to Paris to a repository of cultural artifacts and later incorporated into a renovation and expansion of the buildings housing the national school for fine arts, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, where it remains to this day.
Inscriptions
Written in pencil on recto of mount: "Mr. Foster, Architect / 4 Park Street"
Exhibition history
The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990). France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010).
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
- 1851
- Medium
- salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process, from waxed-paper negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.1 x 14.2 cm (8 5/16 x 5 9/16 in.); Matted: 66 x 55.9 cm (26 x 22 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1989.393
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