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Façade Alsacienne, Corps de Garde à Colmar
Adolphe Braun (French, 1812-1877)c. 1870s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This German Renaissance structure was built in 1575 to be the town hall of Colmar but ended up becoming a guard house. Adolph Braun lived in another town in the same province, Alsace, and produced an extensive series of views of monuments and landscapes of the region. He marketed the images not just locally but throughout Europe and North America.
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- Title: Façade Alsacienne, Corps de Garde à Colmar
- Creator: Adolphe Braun (French, 1812-1877)
- Date Created: c. 1870s
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 43.8 x 37.5 cm (17 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.); Paper: 46.7 x 40.1 cm (18 3/8 x 15 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.63
- Medium: mammoth untrimmed carbon print
- Inscriptions: Written in pencil on verso: "2000f", Written in pencil on verso: "38", Written in pencil on verso: "Andre 455"
- Fun Fact: The loggia above the door, now enclosed, was once used for magistrates to publicly pronounce guilty verdicts.
- Department: Photography
- Culture: France
- Credit Line: Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
- Collection: PH - French 19th Century
- Accession Number: 2021.63
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