Description
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.
Provenance
Paul Cava, Philadelphia, PA; (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc.), New York, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (?-1989); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 29, 1989-)
Accession Number
1988.167
Medium
albumen print, coated, from wet collodion negative
Dimensions
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.)
Classification
Photograph
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund
