Sky Study, Paris
1856
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1856
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
You see a gray Paris skyline under a huge, rolling cloud bank. Marville shot this in the 1850s, when cameras couldn’t handle bright sky and dark ground at once. He tilted the lens up so the dome of Les Invalides—an old soldiers’ home—stands out against the clouds. The rest of the city blurs into shadow. Look up more 19th-century France.
