c. 1878Paris
Avenue de l’Opéra, toward Palais Garnier
Period photograph of the completed avenue. Marville photographed the new cut in 1877–78; others issued similar views. Photographer of this specific scan is not fixed on the file.
Street photograph
c. 1878·Paris
Avenue de l’Opéra, toward Palais Garnier
Period photograph of the completed avenue. Marville photographed the new cut in 1877–78; others issued similar views. Photographer of this specific scan is not fixed on the file.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The new avenue photographed looking toward Palais Garnier: a wide paved cut, a horse tram, kiosks, façades lining a street that had not existed a few years earlier. A camera on the finished boulevard. Set it beside Marville’s demolition plate. One is the cut. This is what occupied the cut afterward.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Avenue de l’Opéra (Palais Garnier at the far end)
- Region
- Europe
- Documented completion
- Avenue opened 1877; Palais Garnier 1875.
- Architect
- Charles Garnier (the opera). The avenue is Haussmann’s cut.
- Present status
- Surviving — The avenue and the opera still stand. This plate is the street after the demolition Marville recorded, not the demolition itself.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons scan of a period photograph looking down Avenue de l’Opéra toward Palais Garnier.
- License
- Public domain (nineteenth-century photograph).
Chronologies
Marville recorded the cut. A later camera recorded the new avenue looking toward Palais Garnier. A photograph of the streets that stood there before the cut is not in this archive. The hole stays.
Paris — Avenue de l’Opéra