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Untitled (The Forest of Fontainebleau)
About the Artwork
Little is known about this gifted photographer who produced photographic studies of the landscape and rural motifs during the 1860s and 1870s. This image depicts a lovely wooded landscape scene flooded with sparkling sunlight and rich shadows. Of all the landscape photographers active in the 1870s, Famin produced the closest equivalent of impressionism in his work.
Provenance
Paul Cava, Philadelphia, PA ?-1989: (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc.), New York, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH June 29, 1989-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 26-June 16, 2005). France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Constant Alexandre Famin (French, 1827–1888)
- Date
- c. 1874
- Medium
- albumen print, coated, from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 17.2 x 23.7 cm (6 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1988.167
More by Constant Alexandre Famin in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00012941
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