1867
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Dolmen, Cap del Puetch, Ariège, France is a 1867 by Arthur A. Taylor, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a landscape with a dolmen, a type of ancient stone structure. The artist took a photo of this scene and then made a print from it. He often worked with a company to produce these prints, which were made using a special process. The print is likely made from a shellac base, a type of material. To learn more about this kind of printmaking, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
A British-born photographer, Taylor lived in Marseille and became a member of the Société Française de Photographie in 1860. Taking photographs in city parks and the surrounding countryside, as well as in Ariège and Seine-et-Oise, he often worked with the establishment G. Arosa et Cie in Saint-Cloud to produce his ink-based prints made from photographs according to the publisher’s unique process. This print is likely made from a shellac base, for Taylor wrote several articles for British and American photographic journals on a shellac printing process in 1866 and 1867. After printing, the…
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