
Charles MarvilleFrankreich, 1813–1879Darf man es sehen?
Cleveland, Vereinigte Staaten
Es gehört zur Sammlung, ist derzeit aber nicht ausgestellt.
In the 1800s, gas lamps replaced the oil lights. When Napoleon III commissioned a new opera house in Paris in 1860, it was surrounded by a “Ring of Light,” including this column with three gas streetlights. The opera house became the setting for Gaston LeRoux’s 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera, which inspired the 1976 musical and 2004 film.
Cleveland Museum of Art