Façade Alsacienne, Corps de Garde à Colmar (c. 1870s): Art, History and Details

Façade Alsacienne, Corps de Garde à Colmar (c. 1870s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Façade Alsacienne, Corps de Garde à Colmar
• Date: c. 1870s
• Creator attribution: Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877)
• Culture: France
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: mammoth untrimmed carbon print
• 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.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2021.63

A detail from the museum

The loggia above the door, now enclosed, was once used for magistrates to publicly pronounce guilty verdicts.

Collection credit

Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.