Charles Marville, Bois de Boulogne - Pré Catelan, ca. 1853–70

Pré Catelan: looking across gardens with small footbridge towards small restaurant surrounded by trees, with verandah, bichromic tiles on gabled roof, carved wooden verandah posts and balustrade, man on bridge and another seated near restaurant.

Charles Marville (born Charles François Bossu; 13 March 1813 – 19 October 1879) - French photographer born in Paris was appointed as the official photographer of the city of Paris in the early 1860s. He was one of the first photographers to use albumen printing process, which produced highly detailed and tonally rich prints. He also experimented with salt prints, cyanotype, and platinum prints, 19th-century architecture, and urban landscapes.