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Untitled — Adolphe Braun

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Written by: Thomas RossiSenior Specialist · Modern & Contemporary Art
Miniature Painting · Catalogue no. 130367
Adolphe Braun

Untitled

StatusReference work · Not for sale
Held byArt Institute of Chicago
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Artist / MakerAdolphe Braun
Date1850/77
Culture / OriginFrance
MediumAlbumen print, stereo
DimensionsEach: 8 × 7.2 cm (3 3/16 × 2 7/8 in.); Card: 8.5 × 17.1 cm (3 3/8 × 6 3/4 in.)
DepartmentPhotography and Media
TypePhotograph
About the Artist

Adolphe Braun French, 1812-1877 Adolphe Braun, a French textile designer born in Besançon and trained in Paris, opened his own studio in Dornach, Alsace, before becoming involved in photography in the early 1850s. He produced several early floral textile designs that were published as lithographs. In 1853 Braun began work on a large album of some 300 photographic still-life studies of flowers, intended as aids for artists in the field of decorative arts. The work met with such success at… Full biography →

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Image & data: Art Institute of Chicago, CC0 / Public Domain.

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