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Switzerland. Grindelwald, Upper Glacier, Source of the Lutschine
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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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineSwitzerland. Grindelwald, Upper Glacier, Source of the Lutschine, 1875–77. Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877). Carbon print, toned, from wet collodion negative; image: 38.7 x 48.3 cm (15 1/4 x 19 in.); paper: 40 x 50.7 cm (15 3/4 x 19 15/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.); framed: 59.1 x 74.3 cm (23 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund, 1992.237
