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Frank Chauvassaignes — Landscape with Seated Figure on Stream Bank

Frank Chauvassaignes

Landscape with Seated Figure on Stream Bank

1856

Created using the calotype process, the photograph shows early artistic photography's capacity to transform landscape into poetic composition through careful framing and tonal effects.

Medium
salted paper print from waxed paper negative

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Frank Chauvassaignes, Landscape with Seated Figure on Stream Bank, 1856

Created using the calotype process, the photograph shows early artistic photography's capacity to transform landscape into poetic composition through careful framing and tonal effects.

Medium
salted paper print from waxed paper negative
Year
1856
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, French, Serene, Figure, Photograph, Landscape, Realistic, Nature, Salted Paper

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