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Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg (grotte de Marie de Médécis)

c. 1850

Charles Marville

(French, 1813–1879)
Culture
France
Medium
Salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2021.65
Public Domain
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Location
230 Photography
Print
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In the 1620s, French queen Marie de’ Medici built an Italianate palace and gardens on Paris’s Left Bank.

Description

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.
A vertically oriented salted paper print depicts an ornate stone fountain with rusticated columns. Two reclining figures rest atop a triangular pediment, while a statue stands within a central arched niche. Deep shadows contrast with bright light hitting the right side. Parisian buildings rise in the background. The print is set within a pale mount featuring printed text above and below. Muted brown tones define the aged, historic scene.

Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg (grotte de Marie de Médécis)

c. 1850

Charles Marville

(French, 1813–1879)
France

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