Cleveland Museum of Art
Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg (grotte de Marie de Médécis)
Charles MarvilleLinkedCulture matchlcp-6145c6810e2f
- Date
- c. 1850
- Medium
- Salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 439500
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. In the 1620s, French queen Marie de’ Medici built an Italianate palace and gardens on Paris’s Left Bank.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
- Provenance
- ?-2021: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY | June 7, 2021: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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