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Près de la Caverne, Terrain Brûlé

early 1860s
Not on view
An atypical work for the naturalistically inclined Cuvelier, this highly Romantic image of two people sitting below the skeletons of burned pine trees and looking into the featureless distance like the contemplative figures in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, was no doubt a response to the startling sight of the charred landscape.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Près de la Caverne, Terrain Brûlé
  • Artist: Eugène Cuvelier (French, 1837–1900)
  • Date: early 1860s
  • Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
  • Dimensions: 26 x 19.8 cm (10 1/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, The Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Memorial Fund Gift, in memory of Judith Rothschild, 1996
  • Object Number: 1996.303
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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