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Notre Dame de Paris
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About this work
When the popularity of Victor Hugo’s novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame drew attention to the church, the state hired architect and preservationist Eugène Viollet-le-Duc to restore it. His renovation, which lasted from 1844 to 1864, modified the cathedral: he added the spire, gargoyles, and griffins. Charles Soulier shows us the church’s front and some of the surrounding neighborhood, bustling with carriages and new construction.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineNotre Dame de Paris, early 1860s. Charles Soulier (French, 1840–1875). Albumen print from glass negative; image: 38 x 30.6 cm (14 15/16 x 12 1/16 in.); matted: 71.1 x 61 cm (28 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1989.56
