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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, 2021.57", "current_location": null, "title": "Young Alsacienne Woman", "creation_date": "c. 1871", "creation_date_earliest": 1866, "creation_date_latest": 1876, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "France" ], "technique": "carbon print on a ruled mount", "support_materials": [], "department": "Photography", "collection": "PH - French 19th Century", "type": "Photograph", "measurements": "Image: 40 x 30.5 cm (15 3/4 x 12 in.)", "dimensions": { "image": { "height": 0.4, "height_inch": 15, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.305, "width_inch": 12, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 705705, "title": "France in the Time of Manet and Morisot", "description": "France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).", "opening_date": "2026-05-10T04:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-2021", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "June 7, 2021", "sortorder": 2 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This woman wears a regional folk costume from the French region of Alsace, recalling traditions that were disappearing under the impact of industrialization and modernization.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "At the end of the Franco-Prussian War, Prussia seized much of the regions of Alsace and Lorraine. That inspired Adolphe Braun to produce a series of images of women meant to personify those lost territories. 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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. 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