A. Trantoul - Gorges Du Tarn Castelbouc - 1998.154 - Cleveland Museum ...
Public domain image of a monastery, church, religious historic building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
A. Trantoul - Gorges Du Tarn Castelbouc - 1998.154 - Cleveland Museum ...
Public domain image of a monastery, church, religious historic building, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Adolphe Braun - Bouquet - 1989.28 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Public domain photo of botanical artwork, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Adolphe Braun - Switzerland. Grindelwald, Upper Glacier, Source of the...
Braun's photographs often bore a stylistic resemblance to realist painting in France. Photography was an important factor in the evolution of realism, a style that was then gaining popularity. With its forthrig... More
Adolphe Braun - The Ramesseum, Thebes - 1992.244 - Cleveland Museum of...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Adolphe Braun - Trophy of the Hunt - 1985.144 - Cleveland Museum of Ar...
This rare photograph is from a small group (fewer than ten known negatives) of large-scale still lifes of game and hunting paraphernalia. Printed directly from a 31-x-24-inch glass negative, the photograph prov... More
Adolphe Braun - Untitled (Farm Animals) - 1991.162 - Cleveland Museum ...
This charming view of village life by Braun is one of only about five known large-scale prints produced from a small number of negatives. It represents one of the earliest studies of animals not portrayed by a ... More
Adolphe Braun - Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (from the album C...
Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Adolphe Braun - Woman in Lorraine Dress - 1999.109 - Cleveland Museum ...
This portrait depicting an ethnic type and costume—a woman from the Lorraine region—was probably made around 1871, when the Franco-Prussian War resulted in the loss of the French regions of Alsace and Lorraine ... More
Adolphe Terris - Renovation of the Old City of Marseille, Rue Caves de...
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Adrien Tournachon - Portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) - 2001.1...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
André Giroux - Untitled (Scene of Fontainbleau) - 1996.9 - Cleveland M...
Trained as a painter, Giroux was an active amateur photographer during the 1850s. His father manufactured equipment for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the inventor of the first photographic process, the daguerre... More
André Philippe Régnier - Rural Estate Seen Through Archway - 1999.111 ...
Public domain image of an arch structure, bridge, historic place ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri - Monsieur Merlen - 1995.179 - Cleveland ...
The carte-de-visite, a small photograph mounted on cardstock, was patented by Disdéri in 1854. Used for images of both ordinary and famous people, it gave birth to the craze of collecting celebrity portraits. B... More
Antoine-Samuel Adam-Salomon - Unknown Male Sitter - 1996.356 - Clevela...
Almost all early photographers relied on daylight as their sole lighting source. Adam-Salomon’s special lighting techniques yielded a rich tonal range and cast his sitters’ features into relief. A ground-glass ... More
Arthur A. Taylor - Dolmen, Cap del Puetch, Ariège, France - 1995.237 -...
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 Arièg... More
Auguste Belloc - Academic Nude, Reclining on a Sofa - 1998.55 - Clevel...
Before becoming a photographer and writer on photographic theory, processes, and techniques, Belloc produced watercolors and miniatures. By 1851, he had established a commercial studio in Paris, specializing in... More
Auguste Giraudon - Female Peasant Carrying a Basket and Hay - 1999.27 ...
Giraudon was an important Parisian publisher of primarily photographs of works of art. In 1900, his firm boasted that it maintained a stock of some 115,000 photographs. During the 1870s, early in the firm’s his... More
Auguste Giraudon's Artist - Dog and Puppy in Barrel - 2010.9 - Clevela...
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Auguste Giraudon's Artist - French Country Study- Two Boys Climbing a ...
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Auguste Giraudon's Artist - Man with Walking Stick - 2010.7 - Clevelan...
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Auguste Giraudon's Artist - Two Female Peasants Standing, Doing Laundr...
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Auguste Giraudon's Artist - Two Peasant Girls Seated - 2000.34 - Cleve...
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Auguste Giraudon's Artist - Two Peasant Girls Seated - 2000.34 - Cleve...
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Auguste Giraudon's Artist - Two Peasant Girls Seated - 2000.34.1 - Cle...
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Auguste Giraudon's Artist - Two Peasant Girls Seated - 2000.34.2 - Cle...
Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Auguste Giraudon's Artist - Two Peasant Girls Seated - 2000.34.2 - Cle...
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Auguste Giraudon's Artist - Two Shepherdesses Resting with Two Sheep -...
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Auguste Mestral - Statue of the Virgin, Notre Dame de Paris - 2007.12 ...
Public domain photograph related to the history of France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Auguste Salzmann - Street in the Arab Quarter, Jerusalem - 1990.120 - ...
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Auguste Salzmann - Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem - 1996.10 - Cleveland...
In 1854, Auguste Salzmann was commissioned by the French Ministry of Public Instruction to document the holy city of Jerusalem. His charge was to substantiate the controversial theories about dating ancient ru... More
Auguste Salzmann - Tomb of the Virgin, Jerusalem - 1996.10 - Cleveland...
In 1854, Auguste Salzmann was commissioned by the French Ministry of Public Instruction to document the holy city of Jerusalem. His charge was to substantiate the controversial theories about dating ancient ru... More
Baron A. Faÿs - Santa Maria della Salute, View of the Grand Canal, Ven...
Public domain image of Venice, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Baron A. Faÿs - Santa Maria della Salute, View of the Grand Canal, Ven...
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Camille Dolard - Self-Portrait in Painting Studio - 1997.56 - Clevelan...
Many of the best early photographers were artists who put their training in figural arrangement, light and shadow, and composition to good use in the new medium. Dolard, a portrait painter, may have offered pho... More
Charles Aubry - Floral Still Life (Bleeding Hearts) - 1988.86 - Clevel...
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 da... More
Charles Henri Plaut - View from the Pont de la Concorde - 1998.158 - C...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a canal, barge, historic place, water reflection, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Charles Lenormand - Autun, Tower of Ursulines - 1997.128 - Cleveland M...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Charles Lenormand - Autun, Tower of Ursulines - 1997.128 - Cleveland M...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a park, trees, outdoors, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Charles Marville - Portico of the Château d'Anet, now at the École des...
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Charles Marville - Rue de la Ferronnerie - 1984.24 - Cleveland Museum ...
This Marville photograph is from his series on the old sections of Paris taken during the 1860s before Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann cut great boulevards through them. Marville achieved documentary perfectio... More
Charles Marville - Rue Jean-de-Beauvais. Vue prise de la rue des École...
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Charles Marville - Tympanum, Strasbourg Cathedral - 2001.149 - Clevela...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of antique sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Charles Marville - Untitled (Cloud Study with Les Invalides) - 1988.19...
In this image of the Parisian skyline, Marville poetically combined his impressive ability to render architecture with his interest in presenting nature’s ephemeral qualities. He masterfully conveyed the contra... More
Charles Marville - View of the Small Grotto toward the Deer Pond, Bois...
Although better known for his architectural photographs of Paris, Marville also produced magical landscapes like this image. Carefully composed, the asymmetrical composition presents a picturesque scene of a wa... More
Charles Nègre - The Asylum at Vincennes - 1999.112 - Cleveland Museum ...
Public domain photo of French landscape, historic place, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Charles Nègre - The Asylum at Vincennes - 1999.112 - Cleveland Museum ...
Public domain photo of French landscape, historic place, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Charles Nègre - The Tiber, Tuileries Garden, Paris - 1994.201 - Clevel...
Charles Nègre, a history painter by training, was a pioneering 19th-century French photographer. In 1859 he received government support to produce a series of fifty images of statuary in Paris's Tuileries Garde... More
Charles Soulier - Bibliothèque du Vatican - 2012.441 - Cleveland Museu...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Charles Soulier - Buttes Chaumont, Paris - 1996.338 - Cleveland Museum...
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Charles Soulier - Notre Dame de Paris - 1989.56 - Cleveland Museum of ...
A successful commercial photographer, Soulier operated in partnerships initially with A. Clouzard and then with Claude-Marie Ferrier and his son, A. Ferrier. Soulier was admired for his naturalistic architectur... More
Charles Soulier - Rome- Groupe de Laocoon (Vatican) - 2012.439 - Cleve...
Public domain photograph of a sculpture, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Charles Soulier - Rome- Groupe de Laocoon (Vatican) - 2012.439 - Cleve...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of a monument or sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Charles Soulier - Statue de Tibere, Vatican - 2012.440 - Cleveland Mus...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Charles Soulier - Statue de Tibere, Vatican - 2012.440 - Cleveland Mus...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Charles Soulier - Vatican- Galerie Nuovo Braccio - 2012.442 - Clevelan...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a classical or neoclassical building, architecture design, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Charles-Fortunat-Paul-Casimir Perier - Rural Scene with Stone Building...
Public domain photo of French landscape, historic place, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay - The Nunnery, Uxmal - 1996.241 - Clevela...
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Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay - The Nunnery, Uxmal - 1996.241 - Clevela...
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Clevelandart 1983.198 - Early photography, Public domain image
Nadar was a journalist, novelist, cartoonist, balloonist, lithographer, and, beginning in 1849, photographer. Like Brady’s establishments in America, Nadar’s Parisian studio quickly became a center for celebrit... More
Clevelandart 1984.17 - Early photography, Public domain image
In the early 1850s, Robert made a series of photographs that would be copied in lithography by Emile van Marcke, an accomplished artist who worked at the Sèvres factory with Robert at this time. Robert’s photog... More
Clevelandart 1984.24 - Early photography, Public domain image
This Marville photograph is from his series on the old sections of Paris taken during the 1860s before Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann cut great boulevards through them. Marville achieved documentary perfectio... More
Clevelandart 1985.144 - Early photography, Public domain image
This rare photograph is from a small group (fewer than ten known negatives) of large scale still lifes of game and hunting paraphernalia. Printed directly from a 31-x-24 inch glass negative, the photograph pro... More
Clevelandart 1987.54 - Early photography, Public domain image
Exploring the dramatic effects of sunlight, clouds, and water, Gustave Le Gray gained immediate recognition for his landmark photographs of the Mediterranean Sea and the English Channel taken between 1856 and 1... More
Clevelandart 1988.191 - Early photography, Public domain image
In this image of the Parisian skyline, Marville poetically combined his impressive ability to render architecture with his interest in presenting nature’s ephemeral qualities. He masterfully conveyed the contra... More
Clevelandart 1988.64 - Early photography, Public domain image
One of the most inventive and influential French photographers of the 1850s, Le Gray was widely known for his landmark studies taken in the Forest of Fontainbleau, near Paris, from about 1849 to 1857. The photo... More
Clevelandart 1989.27 - Public domain scenic engraving
Although better known for his architectural photographs of Paris, Marville also produced magical landscapes like this image. Carefully composed, the asymmetrical composition presents a picturesque scene of a wa... More
Clevelandart 1989.29 - Public domain portrait drawing
Eugène Cuvelier was a landscape painter as well as a photographer. During the 1850s and 1860s, he photographed in an number of forests near Paris. He was also associated with the Barbizon painters, a group work... More
Clevelandart 1991.162 - Early photography, Public domain image
This charming view of village life by Braun is one of only about five known large-scale prints produced from a small number of negatives. It represents one of the earliest studies of animals not portrayed by a ... More
Clevelandart 1991.35 - Early photography, Public domain image
This extraordinary photograph clearly demonstrates Baldus’s genius both as an architectural photographer and as a printer. Centrally placed and filling the entire composition, this great architectural monument ... More
Clevelandart 1992.120 - Early photography, Public domain image
Baldus’s prodigious and compelling documentation of French historic buildings earned him recognition as one of the first great French architectural photographers. This image of Notre-Dame at Auvers-sur-Oise, no... More
Clevelandart 1992.237 - Early photography, Public domain image
Braun's photographs often bore a stylistic resemblance to realist painting in France. Photography was an important factor in the evolution of realism, a style that was then gaining popularity. With its forthrig... More
Clevelandart 1992.244 - Early photography, Public domain image
Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description
Clevelandart 1996.9 - Early photography, Public domain image
Trained as a painter, Giroux was an active amateur photographer during the 1850s. His father manufactured equipment for Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, the inventor of the first photographic process, the daguerre... More
Clevelandart 1998.73 - Public domain portrait print
A painter by trade, Le Gray took up photography in 1847 and became a master of light-filled landscapes and seascapes. His early portraits depict his social circle of artists and writers, including his friend an... More
Clevelandart 1999.21 - Early photography, Public domain image
Unlike the nearby two theatrical portraits, which show the actors in character, Bocage is shown as himself. Known by the stage name Bocage, Pierre-Martinien Tousez was a star of the Comédie-Française. Here he p... More
Constant Alexandre Famin - Hotel Jacques Coeur at Bourges - 2001.53 - ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Constant Alexandre Famin - Hotel Jacques Coeur at Bourges - 2001.53 - ...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic hotel building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Constant Alexandre Famin - Study of a Birch Tree, Barbizon - 1994.93 -...
During his brief career in photography, Famin produced photographic studies of varied motifs, including figures, animals, and elements of landscape, from which young artists learned by copying and seasoned prof... More
Constant Alexandre Famin - Untitled (The Forest of Fontainbleau) - 198...
Little is known about this gifted photographer who produced photographic studies of the landscape and rural motifs during the 1860s and 1870s. This image depicts a lovely wooded landscape scene flooded with spa... More
Domini - View of a Village - 2000.86 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Public domain photo of French landscape, historic place, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Edmond Bacot - Portrait of Victor Hugo on Guernsey - 2001.52 - Clevela...
Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Eugène Atget - Hôtel Cheruseau, Rue Louis en L'Ile - 1993.88 - Clevela...
Eugene Atget, the French photographer, is best known for his photographs of the architecture and street scenes of Paris, France, late 19th and early 20th centuries. He captured the city's architecture and daily... More
Eugène Atget - Rue du Regard - 1980.35 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Public domain image of a historic building, 16th, 17th, 18th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Eugène Atget - Versailles, Chaste Venus - 1985.113 - Cleveland Museum ...
During the first quarter of the 20th century, Eugène Atget photographed the French urban experience. Periodically, from 1901 to 1926, Atget was particularly attracted to the grounds and gardens at the palace of... More
Eugène Atget - Versailles, Fountain of Triumphant France - 1985.114 - ...
From 1901 until his death in 1927, Atget devoted much of his time to documenting châteaus and parks in and around Paris. Initially and most frequently, he was attracted to the gardens of Versailles, first worki... More
Eugène Colliau - Portrait of the Actor Pierre Bocage and Friend - 1999...
Unlike the nearby two theatrical portraits, which show the actors in character, Bocage is shown as himself. Known by the stage name Bocage, Pierre-Martinien Tousez was a star of the Comédie-Française. Here he p... More
Eugène Cuvelier - Farmyard - 2008.112 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Public domain photo of French landscape, historic place, France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Eugène Cuvelier - Road in the Forest - 1989.29 - Cleveland Museum of A...
Eugène Cuvelier was a landscape painter as well as a photographer. During the 1850s and 1860s, he photographed in an number of forests near Paris. He was also associated with the Barbizon painters, a group work... More
Eugène Piot - Parthenon - 2006.158 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image of a Roman forum, large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Eugène Piot - Parthenon - 2006.158 - Cleveland Museum of Art
Picryl description: Public domain image of a Roman forum, large historic building, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Frank Chauvassaignes - Artist (or Assistant) with Pipe - 1998.174 - Cl...
Frank Chauvassaignes' portrait is an outstanding example of compositional and technical achievement in early French photography. A handsome young painter, outfitted for work in the studio in a rumpled smock, ap... More
Frank Chauvassaignes - Dark Landscape with Hills - 1999.196 - Clevelan...
Public domain photograph of mountain range, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Frank Chauvassaignes - Landscape with Seated Figure on Stream Bank - 1...
Flooded with bright light and enveloped in deep shadows, this romantic landscape is the remarkable achievement of the early French photographer Chauvassaignes, about whom little biographical information is know... More
Frédéric Flachéron - Goldsmith's Arch, Rome - 2008.115 - Cleveland Mus...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Frédéric Flachéron - Goldsmith's Arch, Rome - 2008.115 - Cleveland Mus...
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Félix Teynard - General View of Monuments Carved into Bedrock with Pho...
Teynard, a civil engineer, may have learned photography for his 1851–52 tour of Egypt, which he undertook “to study certain questions of personal interest.” In 1858 he published his photographic record of ancie... More
Félix Teynard - Large Speos - View taken from the Sand Slope (Temple o...
While other images of Abu Simbel by Teynard, Maxime Du Camp, and Antonio Beato emphasize the massive scale of the two temples carved into the rocks, this view by Teynard sets the colossal sculptures into the co... More
Félix Teynard - Sphinxes with a Human Head and with a Ram Head at Poin...
The monumental sphinx at Giza, which has the head of a man and the body of a lion, is one of the most iconic symbols of ancient Egypt. The country contains other, humbler versions of this mythical creature. The... More
Guglielmo Marconi - Male Nude - 1996.357 - Cleveland Museum of Art
An Italian photographer active in Paris from the mid-1960s through the mid-1870s, Guglielmo Marconi specialized in academic nude studies for painters and sculptors. Using child, female, and male models, he pho... More