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| Keywords: Charles Marville, The Horse Market - Getty Museum.jpg 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 negative about 1865; print after 1871 Albumen silver print Image 26 2 x 37 1 cm 10 5/16 x 14 5/8 in Mount 38 7 x 51 9 cm 15 1/4 x 20 7/16 in Institution Getty Museum http //www nga gov/content/ngaweb/press/exh/3209/images html National Gallery of Art object history exhibition history other versions 68587 Recto mount White label with brown ink inner border affixed to bottom center inscribed in black ink Impase de l'Essai de Marché auc Chevaux Verso mount Inscribed at bottom right edge in pencil Chicago 86 and illeg inscription in pencil Published Title Impasse de l'Essai du Marché aux Chevaux / Rue de l'Essai du marché aux Chevaux 5e arr / The Horse Market credit line accession number 84 XM 346 14 PD-100 Rue de l'Essai Paris Historical images of Paris markets Horse markets 1860s Setts in Paris Photographs of Paris by Charles Marville Paris in the 1860s Albumen prints Photographs in the Getty Museum | ||||
