The Impasse de l'Essai at the Horse Market, Paris
negative about 1865; print after 1871
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 26.2 × 37.1 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-447200
This dead-end, cobblestone lane stood near the horse market in Paris. Urban planner Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann commissioned Charles Marville to document "old Paris" prior to Haussmann's redesign of the city's streets and public spaces. Beyond the stone wall, a quaint neighborhood of modest structures backs up on a dirt alley. The foreground trees, stripped by the winter of their foliage, arch across the photograph like rolled up theater curtains revealing some backstage scene. This neighborhood may have been demolished to make way for one of Haussman's grand boulevards, which have come to characterize modern Paris.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- negative about 1865; print after 1871 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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