Portico of the Château d'Anet, now at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1851): Art, History and Details

Portico of the Château d'Anet, now at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1851) 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:

Some buildings in Paris illustrate multiple layers of French history. This entrance was once part of the Château d’Anet, built in 1548–50 in northern France by King Henri II for his mistress. This section of the facade was rescued from a campaign during the French Revolution to destroy symbols of the former monarchy. It was moved to Paris to a repository of cultural artifacts and later incorporated into a renovation and expansion of the buildings housing the national school for fine arts, the Beaux-Arts de Paris, where it remains to this day.

Object facts

• Title: Portico of the Château d'Anet, now at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
• Date: 1851
• Creator attribution: Charles Marville (French, 1813–1879)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process, from waxed-paper negative
• Dimensions: Image: 21.1 x 14.2 cm (8 5/16 x 5 9/16 in.); Matted: 66 x 55.9 cm (26 x 22 in.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1989.393

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

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