La Belle Jardinère: le magasin de la rue de la Cité pendant sa demolition, Paris (1864–66): Art, History and Details

La Belle Jardinère: le magasin de la rue de la Cité pendant sa demolition, Paris (1864–66) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The department store was located on the Ile de la Cité in the Seine in the middle of Paris. In 1864, as part of the renovation of the city, the government ordered that the store be replaced with a new building for the country’s oldest hospital. While there are numerous photographs of new structures and broad streets that resulted from Baron Haussmann’s urban renewal plan, views of the demolition of the old structures are rare.

Object facts

• Title: La Belle Jardinère: le magasin de la rue de la Cité pendant sa demolition, Paris
• Date: 1864–66
• Creator attribution: Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879)
• Culture: France
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print from collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 22.9 x 34.6 cm (9 x 13 5/8 in.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2021.64

A detail from the museum

Founded in 1824, La Belle Jardinière (The Beautiful Gardener) department store pioneered the sale of ready-to-wear clothing for those of modest means.

Collection credit

Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.