BRAUN, Adolphe.
Untitled flower study (orchids).
c. 1870?
Albumen print from a collodion negative, 480 x 380 mm, on a blue stiff paper mount; a few minor surface marks but in excellent condition.
A stunning monumental flower study by Adolphe Braun (1811–1877). Born in Besançon, Braun’s first career was a designer of textiles, and his first exercises in flower photography in the late 1840s and early 1850s were intended as compositional aids. His album of Fleurs photographiées (1855) brought him wide attention and he established a successful enterprise with his sons, specialising also in Alpine landscapes.
Another image employing the same branches but in a different arrangement was sold from the collection of Paul Kasmin at Stair on 5 December ($2300).
