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Untitled (The Forest of Fontainebleau)
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Untitled (The Forest of Fontainebleau)

Constant Alexandre Famin (French, 1827–1888), artist · c. 1874 · albumen print, coated, from wet collodion negative

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About this 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.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineUntitled (The Forest of Fontainebleau), c. 1874. Constant Alexandre Famin (French, 1827–1888). Albumen print, coated, from wet collodion negative; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1988.167
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