Flower Piece (Hydrangeas)
Adolphe Braun, Flower Piece (Hydrangeas), ca. 1855, albumen silver print, Gift of Sandra Phillips in honor of Terry Toedtemeier, public domain, 2010.28.2
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- Title
Flower Piece (Hydrangeas)
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1855
- Medium
albumen silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 9 1/4 in x 7 5/8 in; sheet: 12 1/8 in x 9 7/16 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
French
- Credit Line
Gift of Sandra Phillips in honor of Terry Toedtemeier
- Accession Number
2010.28.2
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
French textile designer Adolphe Braun took his first photographs in 1851, using pictures of flower arrangements as inspiration for new fabric and wallpaper patterns. A catalogue of these floral images earned Braun a medal at the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Following this achievement, he turned his full attention to photography. Braun established a successful studio that specialized in panoramas of the European countryside as well as reproductions of works of art housed in exceptional institutions such as the Musée du Louvre. This early image of hydrangeas, which serves as a document as well as a sensitive, simple artistic study, is a fine example of the classic floral motifs that earned Braun his breakthrough success in the 1850s.
- Exhibitions
2012 Emerging: New Photography Acquisitions Portland Art Museum
