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Untitled (Farm Animals)

1850s

Adolphe Braun

(French, 1812–1877)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Measurements
Image: 28 x 39.4 cm (11 x 15 1/2 in.); Framed: 53.7 x 63.8 cm (21 1/8 x 25 1/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1991.162
Public Domain
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Location
230 Photography
Print
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Did You Know?

Oxen and horses were essential elements of 19th-century farming; they pulled the plows and other farm equipment, some of which is visible behind the animals here.

Description

While the animals and farmers are in sharp focus in Adolphe Braun's photograph, the buildings are blurred, suggesting that perhaps Braun intended to market these photographs to visual artists as models rather than intending them to be hung on people’s walls as a substitute for a painting.
A horizontally oriented albumen print photograph depicts a rural scene. To our left, a man with a light skin tone stands near two spotted oxen wearing yokes. In the center, two white horses stand harnessed to a small cart. To our right, two men with light skin tones stand with another animal. Large gabled houses with steep roofs rise in the soft-focused background. Natural light illuminates the textured dirt ground.

Untitled (Farm Animals)

1850s

Adolphe Braun

(French, 1812–1877)
France, 19th century

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