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Adolphe Braun

Fruit Tree Blossoms

Description

Maker

Adolphe Braun (French, 1811-1877)

Title

Fruit Tree Blossoms
from Photographs of Flowers (Fleurs Photographiées)

Year

ca. 1854

Medium

  • Albumen silver print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Albumen silver print

Materials

albumen

Dimensions

Plate: 44.4 x 51.1 cm (17 1/2 x 20 1/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Mary B. Jackson Fund

Object Number

1997.20

Type

  • Photographs

Projects & Publications

Publications

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Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun

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Selected Works

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Early Exposures
19th-Century Photography from the Collection
Mar 13, 2015 – Jul 19, 2015

Label copy

Adolphe Braun, originally a textile designer from the Alsace region of France, left that field after the success of his photographic still-lifes. Braun’s still-lifes, some 300 of them, were created to aid designers and artists who were interested in accurately rendering foliage and flowers on fabrics and furnishings.

In one of these studies, Fruit Tree Blossoms, Braun carefully arranged a bouquet so that the flowers face forward while the overall design remains spontaneous and natural. Braun’s technical achievement-particularly the sharp contrast of the foliage against the neutral background-stood out among that of his contemporaries.

Image and Enterprise
The Photographs of Adolphe Braun
Feb 04, 2000 – Apr 22, 2000

Label copy

Flower painting arrived in France from the Netherlands at the beginning of the 18th century and was directly connected to the increased interest in horticulture of the time. The art was taught at the Musée Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle beginning in the late 18th century as a means of documenting botanic specimens with precision. Flower painters were employed to supply designs for porcelain factories such as those at Sèvres and other industrial centers. Braun's photographs with their lower cost and great accuracy, opened a new chapter in what was already a long history in the visual representation of nature.

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This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Adolphe Braun (French, 1811-1877)
Fruit Tree Blossoms; from Photographs of Flowers (Fleurs Photographiées), ca. 1854
Albumen silver print
Plate: 44.4 x 51.1 cm (17 1/2 x 20 1/8 inches)
Mary B. Jackson Fund 1997.20

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