Parc de Courances
1860–70
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 25.4 x 33.7 cm (10 x 13 1/4 in.) Mount: TK
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Nineteenth-Century Photography Fund, 2007
Accession Number
2007.283
Tags
Art Historical Context
Eugène Cuvelier'sParc de Courances (1860–70) captures the serene beauty of the French chateau park at Courances, south of Paris, through a masterful salted paper print from a paper. This 10 x 13¼-inch image showcases towering trees and lush landscapes, evoking the Romantic ideal of nature's grandeur. Cuvelier, a pioneering French photographer and painter associated with the Barbizon school often photographed en plein air, blending his artistic eye with emerging photographic techniques to create poetic, painterly scenes. The salted paper process, popular in the 1840s–60s, involved coating pape...