Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013012Road to Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (recto); Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (verso)
About the Artwork
The town of Pau, in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains, was a popular vacation spot for British tourists and one of several centers for photography in France in the 1850s. Farnham Maxwell Lyte photographed the road that ran through the mountains to the village of Eaux-Chaudes. The town, a tourist destination since the late 1500s, had hot springs reputed to have healing waters. The road had just been built in 1849. It greatly eased access to Eaux-Chaudes and offered dramatic views.
Exhibition history
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 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Farnham Maxwell Lyte (British, 1828–1906)
- Date
- c. 1855
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 28.1 x 21.1 cm (11 1/16 x 8 5/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Paula and Robert Hershkowitz in memory of Sam Wagstaff
- Accession no.
- 1995.180
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