Untitled (Itinerant butcher in village in the Jura?),
CultureFrench
Datec. 1915
MediumAutochrome
Dimensions7 1/16 × 5 1/16 × 1/8 in. (18 × 12.9 × 0.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2022.42.1
Not on view
Label TextUnknown Photographer
French, 1910s–20s
Untitled (Itinerant butcher in village in the Jura?), c. 1915
Autochrome
Marketed by the Parisian firm of Louis and Auguste Lumière in 1907, the autochrome was the first commercially successful photographic color process. A glass plate covered with millions of three-color particles was exposed with the clear glass side facing the lens, unlike the other photo processes in which the emulsion faces the lens.
The tiny color particles acted as filters for the light passing through to the emulsion, with the final image consisting of different densitiesof color particles that blended optically. Autochromes required longer exposures than black-and-white negatives, were tricky to develop, and were visible only against daylight in specially designed lightboxes or projected as lantern slides. Despite their drawbacks, autochromes
were popular among tourists, amateurs willing to do their own processing, and documentarians who sought greater realism.
Museum purchase 2022.42.1
ProvenancePurchased by Serge Kakou at a public market in the 1990s; purchased by Chrysler Museum of Art, December 2022.Exhibition History"New Frames of Reference: Early French Photographers at Home and Abroad," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, gallery 228, September 5, 2024 - February 16, 2025.
