Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000356Woman in Lorraine Dress
About the Artwork
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. The images proved so popular that they were reproduced on souvenir items including postcards and ceramic plates.
Inscriptions
Written in pencil on verso: "Braun / P 1757"; Printed in black ink on recto: "LORRAINE"
Exhibition history
Gallery One 2012. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017). Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 5, 2017). France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877)
- Date
- c. 1871
- Medium
- carbon print
- Dimensions
- Paper: 40.8 x 29 cm (16 1/16 x 11 7/16 in.); Matted: 66 x 55.9 cm (26 x 22 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1999.109
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