Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Cow in Barnyard

Adolphe Braun
1812-1877

Cow in Barnyard

late 1850s
11 1/8 x 15 1/8 inches
Albumen print from a collodion negative.

Gift of Karen B. Cohen.

2022.279
Notes
The artistʼs enterprising studio, Braun et Cie, used new modes of photographic reproduction to reach a wide market. He even made photographs of paintings and sculptures in French collections for use by art history professors in the United States. This rare albumen print by Braun, whose livestock studies are more often carbon prints, exemplifies the effect of using a large aperture to achieve differential focus: the cow is sharply defined while everything else is blurred.
Provenance
Karen B. Cohen.
Century
Department