Charles Delahaye

Charles Marville French
Person in Photograph Charles Hippolyte Delahaye French

Not on view

In the 1850s Marville made a series of portraits of Charles Delahaye, his assistant and possibly distant cousin. Twenty-four years Marville’s junior, the young Delahaye appears here as a moody, sensuous figure. Although the print is technically imperfect—the right corner suggests an awkward attempt to correct a flaw in the negative—the closely cropped composition creates a striking immediacy that is unusual in photographs of the period.

Charles Delahaye, Charles Marville (French, Paris 1813–1879 Paris), Salted paper print from paper negative

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