COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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The AMICA Library
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AMICA ID:
CMA_.1998.163
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AMICA Library Year:
2000
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2000
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Object Type:
Photographs
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Photographs
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Creator Name:
Braun, Adolphe
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Braun, Adolphe
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Creator Nationality:
European; French
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European; French
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Creator Role:
artist
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
1812 - 1877
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1812 - 1877
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Biography:
Adolphe Braun French, 1812-1877Adolphe Braun, a French textile designer born in Besançon and trained in Paris, opened his own studio in Dornach, Alsace, before becoming involved in photography in the early 1850s. He produced several early floral textile designs that were published as lithographs. In 1853 Braun began work on a large album of some 300 photographic still-life studies of flowers, intended as aids for artists in the field of decorative arts. The work met with such success at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris that he left the field of design for photography. Braun's carefully executed still lifes are considered to be among the finest ever done. From the mid-1850s on, Braun's firm, Adolphe Braun et Cie., later headed by his son Gaston (1845?1928), became one of the world's largest studios and publishers of topographical views and of reproductions of works of art. In the latter effort, their importance was in part due to Gaston's success with the orthochromatic process, in which photographic reproductions retained a tonal range very close to that of the original work of art. Braun et Cie. were the official photographers to Napoléon III and Pope Pius IX. Their reproductions of works in the Louvre, the Sistine Chapel, and many other subjects in architecture, sculpture, painting, and drawing, sometimes using the more permanent carbon or Woodburytype processes, were offered in all sizes and formats, and became the standard in their field. The number of negatives taken by the Brauns or their operators was variously estimated in 1870 to be between 4,000 and 8,000. The Brauns were members of the Société française de photographie. Both were awarded the French Legion of Honor-Adolphe in 1860, and Gaston in 1892. T.W.F.
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Adolphe Braun French, 1812-1877Adolphe Braun, a French textile designer born in Besançon and trained in Paris, opened his own studio in Dornach, Alsace, before becoming involved in photography in the early 1850s. He produced several early floral textile designs that were published as lithographs. In 1853 Braun began work on a large album of some 300 photographic still-life studies of flowers, intended as aids for artists in the field of decorative arts. The work met with such success at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris that he left the field of design for photography. Braun's carefully executed still lifes are considered to be among the finest ever done. From the mid-1850s on, Braun's firm, Adolphe Braun et Cie., later headed by his son Gaston (1845?1928), became one of the world's largest studios and publishers of topographical views and of reproductions of works of art. In the latter effort, their importance was in part due to Gaston's success with the orthochromatic process, in which photographic reproductions retained a tonal range very close to that of the original work of art. Braun et Cie. were the official photographers to Napoléon III and Pope Pius IX. Their reproductions of works in the Louvre, the Sistine Chapel, and many other subjects in architecture, sculpture, painting, and drawing, sometimes using the more permanent carbon or Woodburytype processes, were offered in all sizes and formats, and became the standard in their field. The number of negatives taken by the Brauns or their operators was variously estimated in 1870 to be between 4,000 and 8,000. The Brauns were members of the Société française de photographie. Both were awarded the French Legion of Honor-Adolphe in 1860, and Gaston in 1892. T.W.F.
Biography
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Gender:
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Gender
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Creator Birth Place:
Besançon, France 7/13/1812
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Besançon, France 7/13/1812
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Creator Death Place:
Dornach, France 12/31/1877
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Dornach, France 12/31/1877
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Creator Name-CRT:
Adolphe Braun
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Adolphe Braun
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Title:
Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (from the album Charbons de Braun- vues prises avec l'objectif panoramique mobile, 1868)
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Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (from the album Charbons de Braun- vues prises avec l'objectif panoramique mobile, 1868)
Title
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Title Type:
Primary
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Primary
Title Type
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Title:
Vallée de Lauterbrunnen
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Vallée de Lauterbrunnen
Title
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Title Type:
Foreign
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Foreign
Title Type
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View:
Full View
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Full View
View
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Creation Date:
c. 1868
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c. 1868
Creation Date
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Creation Start Date:
1863
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1863
Creation Start Date
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Creation End Date:
1873
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1873
Creation End Date
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Materials and Techniques:
carbon print
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carbon print
Materials and Techniques
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Dimensions:
Image: 22.8cm x 47.7cm, Mounted: 37cm x 58.8cm
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Image: 22.8cm x 47.7cm, Mounted: 37cm x 58.8cm
Dimensions
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AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
AMICA Contributor
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Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Owner Location
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ID Number:
1998.163
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1998.163
ID Number
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Credit Line:
John L. Severance Fund
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John L. Severance Fund
Credit Line
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Inscriptions:
Written in pencil on recto: "Vallée de Lauterbrunnen= Suisse"; in pencil on verso: "12"/ "3500"
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Written in pencil on recto: "Vallée de Lauterbrunnen= Suisse"; in pencil on verso: "12"/ "3500"
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Rights:
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<a href="http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html"target="_new">http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html</a>
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Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1998.163.tif
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CMA_.1998.163.tif
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