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Untitled (The Forest of Fontainbleau)

Constant Alexandre Faminc. 1874

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

Little is known about this gifted photographer who produced photographic studies of the landscape and rural motifs during the 1860s and 1870s. This image depicts a lovely wooded landscape scene flooded with sparkling sunlight and rich shadows. Of all the landscape photographers active in the 1870s, Famin produced the closest equivalent of impressionism in his work.

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  • Title: Untitled (The Forest of Fontainbleau)
  • Creator: Constant Alexandre Famin (French, 1827-1888)
  • Date Created: c. 1874
  • Physical Dimensions: Image: 17.2 x 23.7 cm (6 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
  • Provenance: Paul Cava, Philadelphia
  • Type: Photograph
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.167
  • Medium: albumen print, coated, from wet collodion negative
  • Department: Photography
  • Culture: France, 19th century
  • Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
  • Collection: Photography
  • Accession Number: 1988.167
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