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Rue des Bourdonnais de la rue de Rivoli (overall w/ mount)

Charles Marville

The J. Paul Getty Museum

The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States

This atmospheric view of a wide Paris street, taken shortly after a rainfall, is one of four hundred such images created by Charles Marville in 1865. At that time, Napoléon III's architect and city planner, Baron Haussmann, was planning a broad program of civic improvements in Paris that would extensively alter the layout of the city's boulevards and streets. Before demolition began, city officials commissioned Marville to create photographic records of the existing avenues. New roads cut through ancient neighborhoods, while streets such as the rue de Bourdonnais were realigned and widened.

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  • Title: Rue des Bourdonnais de la rue de Rivoli (overall w/ mount)
  • Creator: Charles Marville
  • Date Created: 1865
  • Location Created: Paris, France
  • Physical Dimensions: 31.1 × 27 cm (12 1/4 × 10 5/8 in.)
  • Type: Print
  • External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
  • Medium: Albumen silver print
  • Terms of Use: Open Content
  • Number: 84.XM.505.35
  • Culture: French
  • Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  • Creator Display Name: Charles Marville (French, 1813 - 1879)
  • Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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