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Road in the Forest

Eugène-Adalbert Cuvelier1860-1863

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

Eugène Cuvelier was a landscape painter as well as a photographer. During the 1850s and 1860s, he photographed in an number of forests near Paris. He was also associated with the Barbizon painters, a group working in the village of Barbizon that advocated the direct study of nature. This exquisite snow scene exemplifies Cuvelier's distinguished and influential landscape work. The artist took advantage of the inherent softness of his photographic process to create an atmospheric rendering of a winter scene with a curving pathway that draws the viewer into the dense, barely defined background of foliage. Many of the trees Cuvelier recorded disappeared soon after the photographs were taken.

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  • Title: Road in the Forest
  • Creator: Eugène Cuvelier (French, 1837-1900)
  • Date Created: 1860-1863
  • Physical Dimensions: Image: 25.8 x 19.8 cm (10 3/16 x 7 13/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
  • Type: Photograph
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.29
  • Medium: salted paper print from waxed paper negative
  • Inscriptions: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "6"; in pencil on verso: "7"
  • Department: Photography
  • Culture: France, 19th century
  • Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
  • Collection: PH - French 19th Century
  • Accession Number: 1989.29
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