Country Life
SOLD September 2001 |
Vintage albumen print of woman milking a cow ca. 1875, attributed to Constant Famin. Dimensions 4.5 x 6 inches (11x15 cm).
Constant Famin was a French master of pastoral imagery and this print certainly melds with his oeuvre. A focal point of 19th century French photography as well as painting, the country life and its image of a pastoral, slow-motion existence in time with the rhythms of nature bore a strong appeal for the over-stressed city-dweller.
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