Untitled (c. 1900–1906): Art, History and Details

Untitled (c. 1900–1906) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Robert Demachy (French, 1859–1936).

The work and its context

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

It is not surprising that the photograph recalls paintings. Robert Demachy, who had started experimenting with photography in the 1870s, was part of the Pictorialist movement, artists from Europe and the United States who argued that photography was a fine art medium. They often found stylistic and narrative inspiration for their photographs in paintings, drawings, and prints.

Object facts

• Title: Untitled
• Date: c. 1900–1906
• Creator attribution: Robert Demachy (French, 1859–1936)
• Culture: France, 20th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: gum bichromate print
• Dimensions: Image: 21.6 x 17.8 cm (8 1/2 x 7 in.); Paper: 23.6 x 18.2 cm (9 5/16 x 7 3/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
• Collection: PH - French 20th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1985.203

A detail from the museum

This photograph captures the sense of interior reflection sometimes found in portraits of their friends and family painted by the Impressionists.

Collection credit

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71.
• 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.