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| Keywords: A View of the Boulevards at Paris.jpg Talbot traveled to Paris in May 1843 to negotiate a licensing agreement for the French rights to his patented calotype process and with Henneman to give firsthand instruction in its use to the licensee the Marquis of Bassano <br> No doubt excited to be traveling on the continent with a photographic camera for the first time Talbot seized upon the chance to fulfill the fantasy he had first imagined on the shores of Lake Como ten years before Although his business arrangements ultimately yielded no gain Talbot's views of the elegant new boulevards of the French capital are highly successful a lively balance to the studied pictures made at Lacock Abbey Filled with the incidental details of urban life architectural ornamentation and the play of spring light this photograph unlike much of the earlier work is not a demonstration piece but rather a picture of the real world The animated roofline punctuated with chimney pots the deep shopfront awning the line of waiting horse and carriages the postered kiosks and the characteristically French shuttered windows all evoke as vivid a notion of mid-nineteenth-century Paris now as they must have when Talbot first showed the photographs to his friends and family in England <br> A variant of this scene taken from a higher floor in Talbot's Paris hotel appeared as plate 2 in The Pencil of Nature May “June 1843 Salted paper print from paper negative 15 1 x 19 9 cm 5 15/16 x 7 13/16 in Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history exhibition history <gallery>File William Henry Fox Talbot View of the Boulevards of Paris 1843 jpg File William Henry Fox Talbot View of the Boulevards at Paris 1843 jpg</gallery> 283070 Inscribed in ink verso BR LA49 credit line Gilman Collection Purchase The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation Gift through Joyce and Robert Menschel 2005 accession number 2005 100 609 PD-100 Historical images of Boulevard des Capucines 1844 1843 in Paris 1843 photographs 19th-century photographs of Paris The Pencil of Nature Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||||
