Still life with pheasants
Artist
Anonymous
CultureFrench
Dateca.1860
MediumAlbumen print from collodian negative
Dimensions8 × 10 1/4 in. (20.3 × 26 cm)
Credit LineGift of Bruno Tartarin
Object number2024.21.3
Not on view
DescriptionThis albumen photograph depicts a bundle of two partridges and pheasant hanging on a wall.
Label TextUnknown photographer French, active 1850s–60s Untitled (Still life with game birds),ca. 1860 Albumen print from collodion negative Seventeenth-century Dutch still lifes included dead game animals to suggest the bounty of nature, the fragility of life, and the skill of aristocrats who were allowed to shoot and then feast upon them. Photographers imitated these compositions, which they sold as artistic studies. This print of a small pheasant bound with two partridges and suspended before a plain wooden panel has greater immediacy than most painted prototypes, because its eternally still subjects were arranged outdoors in natural light. Gift of Bruno Tartarin 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.
