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Constant Alexandre Famin — Study of a Birch Tree, Barbizon

Constant Alexandre Famin

Study of a Birch Tree, Barbizon

1860

Part of the 19th-century movement to elevate photography to fine art, this intimate forest study reveals the influence of Barbizon School painting on early photographic aesthetics.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative

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Constant Alexandre Famin, Study of a Birch Tree, Barbizon, 1860

Part of the 19th-century movement to elevate photography to fine art, this intimate forest study reveals the influence of Barbizon School painting on early photographic aesthetics.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Year
1860
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, French, Tree, Serene, Photograph, Landscape, Naturalism, Nature, Barbizon School

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