Cleveland Museum of Art
Switzerland. Grindelwald, Upper Glacier, Source of the Lutschine
Adolphe BraunLinkedCulture matchlcp-631718ad0c5d
- Date
- 1875–77
- Medium
- Carbon print, toned, from wet collodion negative
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 156526
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Braun's photographs often bore a stylistic resemblance to realist painting in France. Photography was an important factor in the evolution of realism, a style that was then gaining popularity. With its forthright depiction of natural forces, this photograph of a river springing from a glacier clearly recalls landscape paintings by Gustave Courbet (1819–1877). Courbet's numerous river scenes were contemporary with Braun's work and were part of the aesthetic context of the time.
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- Credit line
- The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund
- Provenance
- Adolphe Braun Archive, Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France | Joachim Bonnemasion [1943-], Paris, France | ?-1992: (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY) | December 7, 1992: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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