Marville, Charles
French (1816-1879)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Cathedral de Chartres, Grandes Figures des Pilastres du Portail Septentrional
TRANSLATED TITLE: Chartres Cathedral, large pilaster figures on the Northern portal
BOOK TITLE: --L'Art Religieux, XIIe siecle-- (sic), plate 209.

ca. 1853-55
PUBLISHER: Blanquart-Evrard
salted paper print, from paper negative
35.8 x 25.6 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 5481
81:1530:0008

OLD GEH NUMBER: 175-223

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Buerger, Janet E. --The Era of the French Calotype.-- Rochester, NY: IMP/GEH, 1982. pl. 93.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 129.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Era of the French Calotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 17 -November 28, 1982.//
"Survey of the History of 19th Century Photography", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Gallery, March 1985 - April 1987, 1985.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(printed below image) "Cathedral de Chartres", "Grandes Figures des Pilastres du Portail Septentrional", "Negatif de Ch. Marville, Photographie et edite par Blanquart-Evrard", "L'Art Religieux, XIIe siecle", "Pl 209", "Imprimerie Photographique Blanquart-Evrard, a Lille", (embossed on image)"Collection C.Cromer", (hand written in pencil) "?1855" verso - (handwritten in pencil) "1855 paper neg", (stamped) "223", "EHPC Cromer Collection 175-223" (paper attached w/ notations) "20x 24 French gray 1 1/2 from pic 35/85 ..."

NOTES: Catalogued by J. Buerger. (Isabelle indicates only one other copy BML)

SUBJECT: architecture, detail / Chartres Cathedral