id: 152264 accession number: 1985.144 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.144 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:54.849000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1867 creation date earliest: 1862 creation date latest: 1872 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: carbon print department: Photography collection: PH - French 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Lunn Limited, New York, NY) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: November 13, 1985 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: 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 url: --- 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