Hippolyte Bayard, Cirque National, Paris, 1847 - Getty Museum
Cirque National, Paris. Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Hippolyte Bayard was a French pho... More
Hippolyte Bayard, Cirque National, Paris, 1847
Cirque National, Paris. Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Hippolyte Bayard was a French pho... More
Hippolyte Bayard, Column of barrière du Trône, Paris, November 1849
Column of barrière du Trône, Paris Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Hippolyte Bayard was a... More
Hippolyte Bayard, Fountain Near Cirque National, Paris, about 1847
Fountain Near Cirque National, Paris. Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Hippolyte Bayard wa... More
Hippolyte Bayard, La Fontaine des Fleuves, Place de la Concorde, Paris...
La Fontaine des Fleuves, Place de la Concorde, Paris. Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Hip... More
Hippolyte Bayard, La Fontaine des Quatre Evêques- Massilon, Fléchier, ...
La Fontaine des Quatre Evêques- Massilon, Fléchier, Fénelon et Bossuet, Place St. Sulpice, Paris Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright r... More
Hippolyte Bayard, Panorama of Paris with Louvre and Tuileries in Foreg...
Panorama of Paris with Louvre and Tuileries in Foreground. Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description... More
Hippolyte Bayard, Rue Brey, Paris, about 1845 - 1850
Rue Brey, Paris Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Hippolyte Bayard was a French photographe... More
Hippolyte Bayard, Rue Royale, Paris, about 1840 - 1849
Rue Royale, Paris. Public domain photograph by Hippolyte Bayard, 19th-century French early photography, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Hippolyte Bayard was a French photogra... More
Charles Marville, Rue des Bourdonnais - Getty Museum
This atmospheric view of a wide Paris street, taken shortly after a rainfall, is one of four hundred such images created by Charles Marville in 1865. At that time, Napoléon III's architect and city planner, Ba... More
Charles Marville, Rue Tirechappe - Getty Museum
The lower walls along this narrow street are covered with posters, despite the signs prohibiting them, while painted advertisements fill the overhead spaces. Shortly after Charles Marville made this photograph... More
Charles Marville, The Double Doorway, rue de la Ferronnerie - Getty Mu...
The twin arches connecting one side of an old market to a parallel street are pasted with advertisements and playbills. This neighborhood was slated for demolition, according to the plans of Baron Haussmann, w... More
Charles Marville, The Horse Market - Getty Museum
This dead-end, cobblestone lane stood near the horse market in Paris. Urban planner Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann commissioned Charles Marville to document "old Paris" prior to Haussmann's redesign of the cit... More
Charles Marville, The Left Bank of the Seine from the Pont des Saints-...
Charles Marville photographed this snow-covered area along the River Seine while it was being used as a building depot. Piles of paving stones for new roads line the water's edge, and larger blocks lie near th... More
Charles Marville & Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, La Diane de Jean Gou...
Fountain of Diana in the Louvre Museum, Paris, France. Charles Marville (born Charles François Bossu; 13 March 1813 – 19 October 1879) - French photographer born in Paris was appointed as the official photogr... More
Charles Marville & Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, La Porte Rouge, 1852
Français : La Porte Rouge, Notre-Dame de Paris, France. Charles Marville (born Charles François Bossu; 13 March 1813 – 19 October 1879) - French photographer born in Paris was appointed as the official photog... More
Charles Marville, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1855-1870
Bois de Boulogne, Paris. 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 t... More
Charles Marville, Bois de Boulogne, Paris, about 1858
Bois de Boulogne, Paris. 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 t... More
Charles Marville, La Façade est de la Fontaine des Innocents, 1856
Français : La Façade est de la Fontaine des Innocents Charles Marville (born Charles François Bossu; 13 March 1813 – 19 October 1879) - French photographer born in Paris was appointed as the official photogra... More
Charles Marville, Le Restauration de la Colonne Vendôme après la Commu...
Français : Le Restauration de la Colonne Vendôme après la Commune, Paris, France. Charles Marville (born Charles François Bossu; 13 March 1813 – 19 October 1879) - French photographer born in Paris was appoin... More
Charles Marville, Scene at the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1858
Scene at the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. 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 ... More
Charles Marville, The Naumachia, Parc Monceau, Paris, 1861 - 1871
The Naumachia, Parc Monceau, Paris. 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... More
Eugène Atget, Animal Circus, Fête des Invalides - Getty Museum
Outside the Palace of Monkeys at this street fair, performing dogs and music attracted patrons to an animal circus. An ornately painted organ and humorous illustrations of dogs performing circus antics and dea... More
Eugène Atget, The Facade of Saint Julien le Pauvre - Getty Museum
In this photograph of an alley leading to the facade of Saint Julien le Pauvre, a church built in the 1100s, the viewer's eye follows along the sloped gutter in the center of a cobblestone street. As the drain... More
Eugène Atget, The Old School of Medicine, rue de la Bucherie - Getty M...
At this intersection, a dome surmounts an architecturally eclectic building with shuttered windows and an arch surmounted by a cartouche. Eugène Atget's quest for the remnants of Paris's past led him to photog... More
Eugène Atget, Chiffonier - Getty Museum
In this poignant image, a chiffonier [sic; french:chiffonnnier], or ragpicker, pulls his horseless cart through the Paris streets. The deep shadow that conceals half the vendor's face amplifies the intense exp... More
Eugène Atget, Market Porter - Getty Museum
Posed with one hand leaning on his cane and the other resting on his hip, this market porter was clearly a compliant subject for Eugène Atget's series of portraits of street tradesmen. As was common with the t... More
Attributed to Gustave Le Gray, "Marseillaise," Arc de Triomphe, Paris,...
"Marseillaise," Arc de Triomphe, Paris, France. Public domain photograph of a sculpture, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Gustave Le Gray, Portal of Notre Dame, Paris, 1857 - 1859
Portal of Notre Dame, Paris. Public domain photograph of a sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Jean-Baptiste Raguenet - A View of Paris from the Pont Neuf - 71.PA.26...
Picryl description: Public domain image of Paris, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Jean-Baptiste Raguenet - A View of Paris with the Ile de la Cité - 71....
A View of Paris with the Ile de la Cité; Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (French, 1715 - 1793); 1763; Oil on canvas; 46 x 84.5 cm (18 1/8 x 33 1/4 in.); 71.PA.25
Attributed to Alexandre-Jean Noël, A View of Place Louis XV, about 177...
A View of Place Louis XV, Paris. Public domain photograph of 18th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Attributed to Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat and Stanislas Ratel, Par...
Parade at the Place de la Concorde, Paris. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bisson Frères, Entrance to the Imperial Library, the Louvre Palace, Pa...
Entrance to the Imperial Library, the Louvre Palace, Paris. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bisson Frères, Hotel de Ville, Paris, 1859
Hotel de Ville, Paris. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bisson Frères, La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, about 1854-1864
La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bisson Frères, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, about 1857
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Bisson Frères, Panthéon, Paris, about 1854 - 1864
Panthéon, Paris. Public domain photograph of historical landmark building in France, French architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bisson Frères, St. Germain l'Auxerrois, 1853
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Charles Marville, Candélabre Console Avec Inscription des Noms des Rue...
Candélabre Console Avec Inscription des Noms des Rues Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Marville, Le Restauration de la Colonne Vendôme après la Commu...
Français : Le Restauration de la Colonne Vendôme après la Commune, Paris, France. Charles Marville (born Charles François Bossu; 13 March 1813 – 19 October 1879) - French photographer born in Paris was appoin... More
Charles Nègre, Group of Three Italian Street Musicians in front of 21,...
Group of Three Italian Street Musicians in front of 21, Quai Bourbon, Paris.
Charles Nègre, Italian Musicians (Pifferari) at 21 quai Bourbon, Ile S...
Italian Musicians (Pifferari) at 21 quai Bourbon, Ile Saint-Louis, Paris.
Charles Nègre, Italian Street Musicians at Entrance to 21, Quai de Bou...
Italian Street Musicians at Entrance to 21, Quai de Bourbon, Paris, France.
Charles Nègre, Organ Grinder at 21, quai Bourbon - Getty Museum
Amidst a rapidly changing urban landscape, Charles Nègre photographed traditional street people. The itinerant musician, stooped slightly from the weight of his instrument, is about to enter a door. One foot s... More
Charles Nègre, Pavillion de l'Horloge, The Louvre, Paris, France, abou...
Pavillion de l'Horloge, The Louvre, Paris, France. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Nègre, Pavillon de l'Horloge, Louvre, Paris, 1855
Pavillon de l'Horloge, Louvre, Paris. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Nègre, Place du Châtelet, Paris, 1852
Place du Châtelet, Paris. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Nègre, Spartacus, Tuileries Gardens, Paris, June 1859
Spartacus, Tuileries Gardens, Paris. Public domain photograph of a sculpture, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Nègre, The Angel of the Resurrection on the Roof of Notre-Dame...
The Angel of the Resurrection on the Roof of Notre-Dame, Paris.
Charles Soulier, Panorama de Paris, vue prise du Pont des Arts, 1862
Panorama de Paris, vue prise du Pont des Arts. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Soulier, Pont Neuf, Paris (le Pont Neuf a Paris), 1865
Pont Neuf, Paris. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Debitte & Hervè, Halles - Centrales, about 1880
Les Halles, Paris. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Delmaet & Durandelle, Construction Site in Paris, about 1866
Construction Site in Paris. Français : Chantier de construction de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris, vers 1866.Sur le support carton, dans la marge, à gauche, inscription (à peine visible) : HOTEL DE VILLE ; en bas à ga... More
Ernest Ladrey, Notre-Dame, Cathedrale de Paris, about 1875
Notre-Dame, Cathedrale de Paris. Public domain photograph of historic landmark building, Cathedral, religious architecture, church, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ernest Ladrey, Observatoire De Paris, about 1875
Observatoire de Paris, France. Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ernest Ladrey, Panorama de Paris, about 1875
Panorama de Paris.[avec le nouvel Hôtel-Dieu en voie d'achèvement; il sera ouvert en 1878]
Eugène Atget, Ancienne Barrière du Trône - Getty Museum
Eugène Atget's photograph of a pavilion and column documents an architecturally and historically significant site. The pavilions were constructed in 1787; six years later, in 1794, more than one thousand peopl... More
Eugène Atget, Antique Store, 21 Faubourg St.-Honoré - Getty Museum
This study of a shop window in Paris unites interior with exterior in an intriguing juxtaposition of reflections and objects. The sidewalk, which is completely overexposed in the foreground, is revealed in det... More
Eugène Atget, Boulevard de Strasbourg - Getty Museum
When creating this photograph of a hairdresser's shop window, Eugène Atget documented the fashionable pompadours and upsweeps of the period as well as the popular plunging necklines and draping shawls. This es... More
Eugène Atget, Corner of the rue de Seine and the rue de l'Echaudé - Ge...
Eugène Atget made a number of prints from the negative of this spiky angular building; this example was exposed for longer than the others during the printing process, yielding a darker composition. As a resul... More
Eugène Atget, Costume Shop, rue de la Corderie - Getty Museum
Masks, shoes, and a crown line the shelves of the window, while a clown suit and a child's military jacket adorn the facade of this extremely modest costume shop. A rod running over the window and door, along ... More
Eugène Atget, Cour de Rohan - Getty Museum
Eugène Atget made this moody study from a higher vantage point than he usually employed. This departure from his usual practice--a street-level perspective--suggests that he may have been commissioned to photo... More
Eugène Atget, Fête du Trône - Getty Museum
The carousel is in the exact center of the image; an equal amount of sky and ground surrounds it. Like many of the figures who were captured in Eugène Atget's photographs, the bow-tied bunny at the right appea... More
Eugène Atget, Fête Vaugirard (Street Fair and Kiosk), 1925
Fête Vaugirard (Street Fair and Kiosk). Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known for his photographs of the architecture and street scenes of Paris, France, late 19th and early 20th centuries. He c... More
Eugène Atget, House on the Place du Caire - Getty Museum
The large sphinx heads ornamenting this house, built in 1799, reveal the influence of Napoleon Bonaparte's recent Egyptian campaign. Other eclectic elements, such as the decorative frieze of Roman figures abov... More
Eugène Atget, Junkyard - Getty Museum (cropped)
Seated among the debris of his junkyard, a proprietor with his back to the camera bends over some task partially hidden behind a trashcan. Pots and pans, baskets, shoes, and clothing are among some of his poss... More
Eugène Atget, Junkyard - Getty Museum
Seated among the debris of his junkyard, a proprietor with his back to the camera bends over some task partially hidden behind a trashcan. Pots and pans, baskets, shoes, and clothing are among some of his poss... More
Eugène Atget, Lilies - Getty Museum
Eugène Atget chose to isolate this cluster of lilies in a close-up study; dozens more out of focus behind the clump create a hazy background. In order to make the "documents for artists" that the sign outside ... More
Eugène Atget, Luxembourg Gardens - Getty Museum
A tree takes center stage in this bold composition principally concerned with the depiction of pedestrian space and a Paris monument. Eugène Atget composed the photograph so that the viewer's eye is led down a... More
Eugène Atget, Metalworker's Shop, passage de la Réunion - Getty Museum
In the courtyard of his shop, a metalworker stands with one hand on his hip; a stiffly posed woman, presumably his wife, appears in a window above him; and a man stands in the distance at the end of the alley.... More
Eugène Atget, Old Convent, avenue de l'Observatoire - Getty Museum
The bare trees and high, weather-stained wall in front of this building convey a contemplative atmosphere that seems especially appropriate for an old convent. Propped against the wall behind the gas lamp, a l... More
Eugène Atget, Place Saint-Médard - Getty Museum-bw crop
A busy outdoor market in front of the church of Saint-Médard, built in the 1100s, was a natural subject for Eugène Atget, who often photographed commercial establishments. He shot this photograph close to noon... More
Eugène Atget, Place Saint-Médard - Getty Museum
A busy outdoor market in front of the church of Saint-Médard, built in the 1100s, was a natural subject for Eugène Atget, who often photographed commercial establishments. He shot this photograph close to noon... More
Eugène Atget, Place Saint-Médard, 1898-1900 - Getty Museum
A busy outdoor market in front of the church of Saint-Médard, built in the 1100s, was a natural subject for Eugène Atget, who often photographed commercial establishments. He shot this photograph close to noon... More
Eugène Atget, Porte d'Ivry, Zoniers - Getty Museum
This basket maker, a resident of the no-man's-land that existed just outside the old Paris city walls, paused in his work so that Eugène Atget could photograph him. Seated in front of his shack with his raw ma... More
Eugène Atget, Produce Display, rue Sainte-Opportune - Getty Museum
Carefully arranged produce along the shelves of this neighborhood market created an appealing display for the local customers. Much of the abundant selection, which included apples, peaches, pears, and grape b... More
Eugène Atget, Quai Conti 3 - Getty Museum
Au Petit Dunkerque, a bar in Paris, was bustling with business when Eugène Atget stood directly in front of the entrance to document it. The name of the establishment is subordinated to the sailing ship above ... More
Eugène Atget, Republican Guards in Front of the Palais de Justice - Ge...
The Gardes Républicains, part of the national military, were a perennial presence in the streets of Paris and thus a fitting subject for Eugène Atget. His photographs depicted all that could be seen in and aro... More
Eugène Atget, Restaurant, rue des Blancs Manteaux - Getty Museum
A formally dressed waiter stares at the camera from inside this cabaret while above him hangs a sign depicting an armored man lounging on a cannon; combined with the establishment's name, these two subjects cr... More
Eugène Atget, Royal Palace - Getty Museum
This photograph of two arches that were part of an arcade running along one side of the garden of the Palais Royal in Paris is unusual in Eugène Atget's work because of the symmetry and straightforward angle u... More
Eugène Atget, Rue Cardinale - Getty Museum
The curbs of the sidewalk and the sharply angled lines of the dark buildings looming on either side of this image guide the eye along a path through a Paris intersection. Eugène Atget repeatedly photographed t... More
Eugène Atget, Rue Cardinale, 1922
Rue Cardinale, Paris. Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known for his photographs of the architecture and street scenes of Paris, France, late 19th and early 20th centuries. He captured the city's... More
Eugène Atget, Rue de l'Hotel de Ville - Getty Museum
Eugène Atget's penchant for photographing in the early morning accounts for the street's empty stillness. A sole inhabitant peers out from the hotel doorway, so unobtrusive he becomes a part of the architectur... More
Eugène Atget, Saint-Cloud Park, Paris, 1924
Saint-Cloud Park, Paris. Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known for his photographs of the architecture and street scenes of Paris, France, late 19th and early 20th centuries. He captured the cit... More
Eugène Atget, Secondhand Book Dealer, place de la Bastille - Getty Mus...
This secondhand book dealer on the place de la Bastille was so engaged in reading from her merchandise that she ignored Eugène Atget as he made this photograph. The books--arranged on the stand in side-by-side... More
Eugène Atget, Shop Front, rue Michel-Le-Comte - Getty Museum
In the 1600s, when literacy was rare, symbols were used to illustrate the goods and services offered by merchants. At this shop front, Eugène Atget photographed a sign that featured a wrought iron rope, bucket... More
Eugène Atget, Shop Sign, rue Saint-Louis-en-l'Île - Getty Museum
Storefront (Little Bacchus) Eugène Atget made this image of a storefront with a baby Bacchus about seven years after he made Storefront (Little Bacchus), a photograph that encompassed the shop's entire facade.... More
Eugène Atget, Staircase, Hôtel de Brinvilliers, rue Charles V - Getty ...
This graceful staircase in the Hôtel de Brinvilliers sweeps down into the entrance hall of a house built in 1630. The neglected building was visibly run down by the time Eugène Atget took this photograph. The ... More
Eugène Atget, Staircase, Montmartre - Getty Museum
Historians have suggested that the solitary tree served as a kind of self-portrait in Eugène Atget's photographs. Trees were a favorite subject of the reclusive and private photographer, and they appear often ... More
Eugène Atget, The Austrian Embassy, 57 Rue de Varenne - Getty Museum
To a casual observer, Eugène Atget may have seemed like a commercial photographer, making a living documenting architecture for artists, designers, and institutions. Perhaps he had the Bibliothèque Historique ... More
Eugène Atget, The Panthéon - Getty Museum
Eugène Atget made this atmospheric study across the place Sainte-Geneviève toward the back of the Panthéon, a church boldly designed to combine the splendor of Greece with the lightness of Gothic churches. The... More
Eugène Atget, The Pont Neuf - Getty Museum
In this meditative image, boats moored near the Pont Neuf, the oldest existing bridge across the River Seine, rest on still water. By the time Eugène Atget created this photograph, he had previously documented... More
Eugène Atget, Tinsmith's Shop, rue de la Reynie - Getty Museum
Lying about the sidewalk and on the windowsill are numerous objects and tools from the tinsmith's shop, located inside the darkened doorway. The teapots, pans, and basins easily viewed by passersby would have ... More
Eugène Atget, Vieille Cour, 22 rue Quincampoix - Getty Museum
Residents surrounding this narrow passageway provided few signs of their domestic lives for the photographer to record. Baskets and a few rags hang out of the uppermost window, while two people below observe E... More
Eugène Atget, Water Lilies - Getty Museum
Thick lily pads and water lilies floating on this still pool evoke images of Claude Monet's Impressionist paintings, which were made in his garden at Giverny only a few years prior to this photograph. As a pho... More
Eugène Atget, Zoologist's Shop - Getty Museum
Who were the customers for such an establishment, with its large display windows revealing a most curious product? As unlikely as an encounter with this gruesome storefront seems, Eugène Atget chose to photog... More
Francis Frith & Co., Hotel Cluny, Paris, about 1871
Hotel Cluny, Paris. Public domain image of 19th-century Paris - architecture, historical city building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fédèle Azari, Bombs over low buildings, 1914-1919
Dark sky with bombs exploding over dark low buildings. This is probably the bombing of Paris in January, 1918.
Gargoyle, Notre Dame, Paris, France, about 1870
Notre Dame, Paris, France. Public domain photograph of 1900s studio portrait photography, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description