between 1860 and 1870Paris
Rue de Rivoli and the Hôtel du Louvre
Hippolyte Jouvin. Published between 1860 and 1870. Commons describes the object as a stereograph; this scan is one elevated view, with no second frame on the file.
Elevated photograph
between 1860 and 1870·Paris
Rue de Rivoli and the Hôtel du Louvre
Hippolyte Jouvin. Published between 1860 and 1870. Commons describes the object as a stereograph; this scan is one elevated view, with no second frame on the file.
Elevated photograph · Altered
What this plate shows
An elevated photograph looking along Rue de Rivoli: the arched colonnade, mansard roofs, the garden railing opposite, traffic of carriages. Jouvin, between 1860 and 1870. One view on this file. Not a drawn panorama of Paris, and not Marville’s demolition plates.
- Image type
- Elevated photograph
- Structure
- Rue de Rivoli, with the Louvre colonnade along one side.
- Region
- Europe
- Documented completion
- The Rivoli wing of the Louvre was completed under Napoleon III; the street is earlier.
- Architect
- The long colonnade is Percier and Fontaine’s, extended in the later nineteenth century. Not one signature on this print.
- Present status
- Altered — The street and the Louvre colonnade still stand. Carriages, lamps, and shopfronts in the picture are of the exposure, not of the present roadway.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons scan of Jouvin’s view, catalogued as published between 1860 and 1870. Scale of that scan.
- License
- Public domain.