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accession number: 1985.144
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Trophy of the Hunt, c. 1867. Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877). Carbon print; image: 78 x 59.8 cm (30 11/16 x 23 9/16 in.); framed: 99.7 x 79.4 cm (39 1/4 x 31 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1985.144
title: Trophy of the Hunt
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creation date: c. 1867
creation date earliest: 1862
creation date latest: 1872
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creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: carbon print
department: Photography
collection: PH - French 19th Century
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877) - artist
Adolphe Braun French, 1812-1877
Adolphe Braun, a French textile designer born in Besançon and trained in Paris, opened his own studio in Dornach, Alsace, before becoming involved in photography in the early 1850s. He produced several early floral textile designs that were published as lithographs. In 1853 Braun began work on a large album of some 300 photographic still-life studies of flowers, intended as aids for artists in the field of decorative arts. The work met with such success at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris that he left the field of design for photography. Braun's carefully executed still lifes are considered to be among the finest ever done.
From the mid-1850s on, Braun's firm, Adolphe Braun et Cie., later headed by his son Gaston (1845–1928), became one of the world's largest studios and publishers of topographical views and of reproductions of works of art. In the latter effort, their importance was in part due to Gaston's success with the orthochromatic process, in which photographic reproductions retained a tonal range very close to that of the original work of art. Braun et Cie. were the official photographers to Napoléon III and Pope Pius IX. Their reproductions of works in the Louvre, the Sistine Chapel, and many other subjects in architecture, sculpture, painting, and drawing, sometimes using the more permanent carbon or Woodburytype processes, were offered in all sizes and formats, and became the standard in their field. The number of negatives taken by the Brauns or their operators was variously estimated in 1870 to be between 4,000 and 8,000. The Brauns were members of the Société française de photographie. Both were awarded the French Legion of Honor-Adolphe in 1860, and Gaston in 1892. T.W.F.
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measurements: Image: 78 x 59.8 cm (30 11/16 x 23 9/16 in.); Framed: 99.7 x 79.4 cm (39 1/4 x 31 1/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1985
opening date: 1986-02-12T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1985. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 12-April 20, 1986).
title: The Magic of Still Life
opening date: 1986-11-04T05:00:00
The Magic of Still Life. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 4, 1986-February 1, 1987).
title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00
Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
title: Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun
opening date: 2000-02-04T05:00:00
Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun. Rhode Island School of Design (February 4-April 22, 2000); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 18-August 27, 2000).
title: Trophies of the Hunt: Capturing Nature as Art
opening date: 2004-07-24T00:00:00
Trophies of the Hunt: Capturing Nature as Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 24-November 3, 2004).
title: France at the Dawn of Photography
opening date: 2009-10-04T00:00:00
France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Lunn Limited, New York, NY)
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: November 13, 1985
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Turner, Evan H. "The Year in Review for 1985." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 73, no. 2 (1986): 26-71.
page number: p. 64, no. 65, repr. p.53
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25159930
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Tom E. Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. [Cleveland, OH]: The Museum, 1996.
page number: p. 24-25
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Braun, Adolphe, Maureen C. O'Brien, and Mary Bergstein. Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun. Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2000.
page number: no. 63, p. 149
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Chaffee, Cathleen, "The Perfect Shot", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 44 no. 07, September 2004
page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2004-07/page/n7
Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 306-307
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.144/1985.144_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.144/1985.144_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.144/1985.144_full.tif