Gorges Du Tarn Castelbouc (1870s): Art, History and Details

Gorges Du Tarn Castelbouc (1870s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Amédée Trantoul (French, 1837–1910).

The work and its context

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

The Gorges du Tarn is a canyon formed by the Tarn River in southern France. At the foot of some of its cliffs, below a ruined medieval castle, lies the ancient village of Castelbouc. It contains semitroglodyte dwellings, buildings that were built into the hillsides. Amédée Trantoul learned photography from his father, who had a studio in Toulouse which his son ran after his death.

Object facts

• Title: Gorges Du Tarn Castelbouc
• Date: 1870s
• Creator attribution: Amédée Trantoul (French, 1837–1910)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: salted paper print from wet collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 18.8 x 25.4 cm (7 3/8 x 10 in.); Paper: 19.3 x 25.4 cm (7 5/8 x 10 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1998.154

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

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