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"tombstone": "Study of a Birch Tree, Barbizon, 1860s-1870s. Constant Alexandre Famin (French, 1827\u20131888). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 25.9 x 18 cm (10 3/16 x 7 1/16 in.); matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1994.93",
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"title": "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
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"description": "During his brief career in photography, Famin produced photographic studies of varied motifs, including figures, animals, and elements of landscape, from which young artists learned by copying and seasoned professionals borrowed for their studio compositions. Like an Impressionist painting, this isolated scene of impressive birch trees in the Barbizon forest is animated by a sparkling, dissolving light.",
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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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