Untitled (The Forest of Fontainebleau) (c. 1874): Art, History and Details

Untitled (The Forest of Fontainebleau) (c. 1874) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Constant Alexandre Famin (French, 1827–1888).

The work and its context

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

Little is known about this gifted photographer who produced photographic studies of the landscape and rural motifs during the 1860s and 1870s. This image depicts a lovely wooded landscape scene flooded with sparkling sunlight and rich shadows. Of all the landscape photographers active in the 1870s, Famin produced the closest equivalent of impressionism in his work.

Object facts

• Title: Untitled (The Forest of Fontainebleau)
• Date: c. 1874
• Creator attribution: Constant Alexandre Famin (French, 1827–1888)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print, coated, from wet collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 17.2 x 23.7 cm (6 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1988.167

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

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