Jérusalem, Chemin de Naplouse
Auguste Salzmann French
Printer Imprimerie photographique de Blanquart-Évrard, à Lille French
Not on view
Centrally placed olive trees stretch toward a vacated sky, while rocky terrain leads to a stone wall that marks the split between heaven and earth. This picturesque landscape recalls Salzmann’s earlier endeavors as a painter; throughout the late 1840s and early 1850s, he exhibited idyllic views of Italy and France at the official Salons. He had been influenced by the Barbizon School, a group of artists dedicated to elevating the genre of landscape painting in France. Here, he also references his photographic instructor, the eminent artist Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884), who promoted the paper negative process in France and created striking compositions of single beech and oak trees in the Fontainebleau Forest just outside Paris.
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