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"tombstone": "Untitled (Farm Animals), 1850s. Adolphe Braun (French, 1812\u20131877). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 28 x 39.4 cm (11 x 15 1/2 in.); framed: 53.7 x 63.8 cm (21 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 1991.162",
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"title": "Untitled (Farm Animals)",
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"measurements": "Image: 28 x 39.4 cm (11 x 15 1/2 in.); Framed: 53.7 x 63.8 cm (21 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)",
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"id": 311876,
"title": "Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth",
"description": "Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20-February 2, 1996).",
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"title": "Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun",
"description": "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).",
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"id": 197576,
"title": "France at the Dawn of Photography",
"description": "France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010).",
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"description": "CMA, January 28 - March 15, 1992: \"Selected 1991 Acquisitions,\" CMA Bulletin, 79 (February 1991), p. 77, repr. p. 73.",
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"description": "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. 47, p. 146 (repr.).",
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"description": "This charming view of village life by Braun is one of only about five known large-scale prints produced from a small number of negatives. It represents one of the earliest studies of animals not portrayed by a daguerreotype. This complex and densely filled composition is beautifully balanced and enhanced by the skillful use of natural light in order to highlight the animals. The abundant clarity of detail suggests that Braun intended to market these photographs to visual artists as models for their compositions, just as he did with flower studies accomplished around the same time.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Selected 1991 Acquisitions.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 79, no. 2 (1992): 63-83.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 73; Mentioned: p. 77",
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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": "Adolphe Braun French, 1812-1877\r\n\r\nAdolphe Braun, a French textile designer born in Besan\u00e7on 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.\r\n\tFrom the mid-1850s on, Braun's firm, Adolphe Braun et Cie., later headed by his son Gaston (1845\u20131928), 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 Napol\u00e9on 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 Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de photographie. Both were awarded the French Legion of Honor-Adolphe in 1860, and Gaston in 1892. T.W.F.",
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