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Art Institute of Chicago

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Charles Marville — Fountain at St. Sulpice
Charles Marville

Fountain at St. Sulpice

1851

Early salted paper printing lends a soft, painterly quality to this architectural study, demonstrating the aesthetic possibilities of photography's pioneering processes.

Medium
Salted paper print

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