Vue prise du Couvent des Dominicains, Chalais (Isère), France
Medium
albumen print from collodion negative
Dimensions
image: 13.1 × 20 cm · mounted: 31.7 × 49.1 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
Accession Number
2022.36
Tags
male
About this artwork
Thiollier brought to landscape photography the emotional power and mystery of the Barbizon and naturalist painters whom he collected and befriended. This dramatic view provides a deep vista more commonly found in photographs of the Western United States at the time. Underlying it, however, are a geometric structure of overlapping triangles, curved top border, and atmospheric clouds and mist that relate directly to precedents in painting.