Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012648Switzerland. Grindelwald, Upper Glacier, Source of the Lutschine
Also known as: Landscape with Glacier
About the Artwork
Braun's photographs often bore a stylistic resemblance to realist painting in France. Photography was an important factor in the evolution of realism, a style that was then gaining popularity. With its forthright depiction of natural forces, this photograph of a river springing from a glacier clearly recalls landscape paintings by Gustave Courbet (1819–1877). Courbet's numerous river scenes were contemporary with Braun's work and were part of the aesthetic context of the time.
Inscriptions
Written in pencil on verso: "3/8"; "318"; "D [?]"
Provenance
Adolphe Braun Archive, Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France Joachim Bonnemasion [1943-], Paris, France ?-1992: (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY) December 7, 1992: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993). Legacy of Light: Seven Masters in Depth. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 20-February 2, 1996). Image and Enterprise: The Photographs of Adolphe Braun. Rhode Island School of Design (February 4-April 22, 2000); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 18-August 27, 2000).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Adolphe Braun (French, 1812–1877)
- Date
- 1875–77
- Medium
- Carbon print, toned, from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 38.7 x 48.3 cm (15 1/4 x 19 in.); Paper: 40 x 50.7 cm (15 3/4 x 19 15/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.); Framed: 59.1 x 74.3 cm (23 1/4 x 29 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- The A. W. Ellenberger, Sr., Endowment Fund
- Accession no.
- 1992.237
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