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[Fontainebleau Forest]

ca. 1860
Not on view
The Forest of Fontainebleau-and, in particular, the small town of Barbizon within it-was a popular destination for artists seeking refuge from urban, industrial life in the mid-nineteenth century. With its forty thousand acres of dense woods intercut with rocky gorges and dotted with ancient oaks, Fontainebleau provided an idyllic natural setting for plein-air painters, such as Corot and Millet, as well as for photographers, including Gustave Le Gray and Eugène Cuvelier.
Although the process of making salted paper prints from paper negatives was already somewhat antiquated by the 1860s, Cuvelier chose the technique because of its aesthetic qualities-the soft fibrous effect of the paper negative and the velvety mat surface of the print.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Fontainebleau Forest]
  • Artist: Eugène Cuvelier (French, 1837–1900)
  • Date: ca. 1860
  • Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
  • Dimensions: 25.9 x 19.7 cm. (10 3/16 x 7 3/4 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1987
  • Object Number: 1987.1036.1
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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