Homme allongé au pied d'un chàtaignier
Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard pursued William Henry Fox Talbot's negative/positive experiments and by 1851 was confident enough to open a factory in the outskirts of Lille, in northern France, that cleared the way to mass-producing photographs in the same quantities as traditional prints. At last, photography could hope to succeed as both art and industry. A frequent collaborator of Blanquart-Évrard, Marville contributed more than one hundred photographs, mostly architectural views, to the publisher's many portfolios.
This image is somewhat atypical of Marville's oeuvre. Its atmosphere of intimacy and nonchalance evokes the achievements of the wealthy amateur photographers of the time more than the severe architectural views usually associated with Marville. However, it was published in Blanquart-Évrard's album, Études photographiques (1853), the title of which suggests that such pictures were intended as studies for artists.
This image is somewhat atypical of Marville's oeuvre. Its atmosphere of intimacy and nonchalance evokes the achievements of the wealthy amateur photographers of the time more than the severe architectural views usually associated with Marville. However, it was published in Blanquart-Évrard's album, Études photographiques (1853), the title of which suggests that such pictures were intended as studies for artists.
Artwork Details
- Title: Homme allongé au pied d'un chàtaignier
- Artist: Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris)
- Printer: Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille (French, active 1851–55)
- Date: 1850–53
- Medium: Salted paper print (Blanquart-Évrard process) from paper negative
- Dimensions: 20.9 x 16.2 cm (8 1/4 x 6 3/8 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1946
- Object Number: 46.122.3
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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Multiple artists/makers
1850s
Charles Marville
May 1865
Charles Marville
ca. 1852
Charles Marville
Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille
1850–53
Charles Marville
Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille
1850–53
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