id: 160778
accession number: 1999.109
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Woman in Lorraine Dress, c. 1860s-70s. Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877). Carbon print; paper: 40.8 x 29 cm (16 1/16 x 11 7/16 in.); matted: 66 x 55.9 cm (26 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1999.109
title: Woman in Lorraine Dress
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creation date: c. 1860s-70s
creation date earliest: 1860
creation date latest: 1879
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: carbon print
department: Photography
collection: PH - French 19th Century
type: Photograph
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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.
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measurements: Paper: 40.8 x 29 cm (16 1/16 x 11 7/16 in.); Matted: 66 x 55.9 cm (26 x 22 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Braun / P 1757"
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inscription: Printed in black ink on recto: "LORRAINE"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Gallery One 2012
opening date: 2012-12-12T05:00:00
Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).
title: Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century
opening date: 2016-10-22T04:00:00
Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 5, 2017).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Gallery One Rotation, November 3, 2014 - April 21, 2015.', 'opening_date': '2014-11-03T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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