Road to Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (recto); Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (verso) (c. 1855): Art, History and Details

Road to Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (recto); Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (verso) (c. 1855) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Farnham Maxwell Lyte (British, 1828–1906).

The work and its context

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

The town of Pau, in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains, was a popular vacation spot for British tourists and one of several centers for photography in France in the 1850s. Farnham Maxwell Lyte photographed the road that ran through the mountains to the village of Eaux-Chaudes. The town, a tourist destination since the late 1500s, had hot springs reputed to have healing waters. The road had just been built in 1849. It greatly eased access to Eaux-Chaudes and offered dramatic views.

Object facts

• Title: Road to Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (recto); Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (verso)
• Date: c. 1855
• Creator attribution: Farnham Maxwell Lyte (British, 1828–1906)
• Culture: England, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 28.1 x 21.1 cm (11 1/16 x 8 5/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1995.180

Collection credit

Gift of Paula and Robert Hershkowitz in memory of Sam Wagstaff

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

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