id: 154685 accession number: 1989.28 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.28 updated: 2023-08-23 23:05:14.973000 Bouquet, c. 1855. Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877). Albumen print, varnished, from wet collodion negative; image: 36.8 x 31.8 cm (14 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.); framed: 64.1 x 54 cm (25 1/4 x 21 1/4 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, L. E. Holden Fund 1989.28 title: Bouquet title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1855 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1860 current location: creditline: L. E. Holden Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: albumen print, varnished, from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: Photography 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: 36.8 x 31.8 cm (14 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.); Framed: 64.1 x 54 cm (25 1/4 x 21 1/4 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1989 opening date: 1990-02-06T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1989. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-April 15, 1990). title: Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth opening date: 1996-11-20T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20-February 2, 1996). 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, Feb. 6 - April 15, 1990: "Year in Review 1989," CMA Bulletin, 77 (Feb. 1990), p. 67, no. 29, repr. p. 61.
CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth."
Providence, RI: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (2/4/00 - 4/22/00); CMA (6/18/00 - 8/27/2000). "Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun" cat. no. 12, p. 142 (repr.). --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 110 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.28/1989.28_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.28/1989.28_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1989.28/1989.28_full.tif