Floral Still Life (Bleeding Hearts)
Charles Aubry (French, 1811–1877)
c. 1865
- Medium
- albumen print from glass negative
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 34.6 x 24.6 cm (13 5/8 x 9 11/16 in.); Paper: 48.1 x 31.7 cm (18 15/16 x 12 1/2 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Noted for his close-up studies of leaves, blossoms, and foliage, Charles Aubry was a photographer whose work encompassed both the documentary and the artistic. In this image, the artist isloated a plant on a dark background to concentrate attention on the rhythmic patterns of the blossoms and the abstract shapes suggested by the intertwining branches. Aubry's photographs were prized as important visual records by both scholars and artists.
