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| Keywords: Charles Marville, Rue des Bourdonnais - Getty Museum.jpg This atmospheric view of a wide Paris street taken shortly after a rainfall is one of four hundred such images created by Charles Marville in 1865 At that time Napoléon III's architect and city planner Baron Haussmann was planning a broad program of civic improvements in Paris that would extensively alter the layout of the city's boulevards and streets Before demolition began city officials commissioned Marville to create photographic records of the existing avenues New roads cut through ancient neighborhoods while streets such as the rue des Bourdonnais were realigned and widened 1865 Albumen print Image 31 1 x 27 cm 12 1/4 x 10 5/8 in Mount first mount light gray with speckles 37 x 32 4 cm 14 9/16 x 12 3/4 in Mount second mount off-white 61 x 41 3 cm 24 x 16 1/4 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 68626 Markings Recto mount Marville's blindstamp at lower center royal crest / CH MARVILLE / PHOTOGRAPHE / DU MUSÉE IMPERIAL / DU LOUVRE / decorative element <br> Inscriptions Recto mount inscribed in pencil at lower right corner possibly by Marville Rue des Bourdonnais de la Rue de Rivoli Verso mount inscribed in pencil at lower right corner Marville 27 credit line accession number 84 XM 505 35 PD-100 Rue des Bourdonnais Paris Photographs of Paris by Charles Marville 1865 in Paris 1865 photographs Albumen prints Photographs in the Getty Museum | ||||
