Cleveland Museum of Art

Vue prise du Couvent des Dominicains, Chalais (Isère), France

Félix Thiollier

Date: c. 1865
Medium: albumen print from collodion negative
Culture: France, 19th century
Department: Photography
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

Thiollier brought to landscape photography the emotional power and mystery of the Barbizon and naturalist painters whom he collected and befriended. This dramatic view provides a deep vista more commonly found in photographs of the Western United States at the time. Underlying it, however, are a geometric structure of overlapping triangles, curved top border, and atmospheric clouds and mist that relate directly to precedents in painting. Félix Thiollier, a wealthy industrialist, retired at 35 to pursue photography and local history.

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