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"tombstone": "Untitled (The Forest of Fontainebleau), c. 1874. Constant Alexandre Famin (French, 1827\u20131888). 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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"title": "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"title": "France at the Dawn of Photography",
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"description": "Photographs: Recent Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, Gallery D (March 17-May 14, 1989).",
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"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.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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"biography": "Charles Famin French, 1809 -?\r\n\r\nThe identity of Charles Famin is not entirely clear, although it is known he worked in a Paris studio. He has been confused with a painter of the same name, and his work shares similarities of subject and approach with his contemporary Achille Quinet. From his known body of work, however, it is clear that Famin produced a number of nature studies depicting both woodlands and rural scenes that featured animals or children. These were probably intended as artists' aids.\r\n\tFamin, whose prints first appeared in 1863, was among the second generation of photographers to work in Fontainebleau and its environs. His images, although sometimes characterized as more sensitive and delicate than those of Quinet, often lack the inquisitive originality of Eug\u00e8ne Cuvelier and other pioneers in the Barbizon genre. Indeed, by the time of Famin, the forest was beginning to risk overdevelopment due to its popularization through tourism and art, with many areas, rock formations, and even individual trees known to the public by endearing, somewhat superficial names. Famin is also believed to have produced architectural photography in Paris and Bourges, as well as a set of recently discovered stereoviews. T.W.F.",
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