Floral Still Life (Bleeding Hearts) (c. 1865): Art, History and Details

Floral Still Life (Bleeding Hearts) (c. 1865) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Charles Aubry (French, 1811–1877).

The work and its context

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

Noted for his close-up studies of leaves, blossoms, and foliage, Charles Aubry was a photographer whose work encompassed both the documentary and the artistic. In this image, the artist isloated a plant on a dark background to concentrate attention on the rhythmic patterns of the blossoms and the abstract shapes suggested by the intertwining branches. Aubry's photographs were prized as important visual records by both scholars and artists.

Object facts

• Title: Floral Still Life (Bleeding Hearts)
• Date: c. 1865
• Creator attribution: Charles Aubry (French, 1811–1877)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print from glass negative
• Dimensions: Image: 34.6 x 24.6 cm (13 5/8 x 9 11/16 in.); Paper: 48.1 x 31.7 cm (18 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1988.86

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

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.