Eugène Cuvelier
Still Life with Game

CultureFrench
Titles
  • Still Life with Game
Date1855
MediumSalted paper print from paper negative
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (19 × 24.5 cm)
Mount: 15 1/2 × 20 5/8 in. (39.4 × 52.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in. (19 × 24.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Manfred Heiting, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.2561
Not on view

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Like Camille Corot and other Pre-Impressionist painters, photographer Eugène Cuvelier found both inspiration and subject matter in Fontainebleau Forest, formerly a royal hunting reserve less than 50 miles south of Paris. Seeking solace in nature away from the rapidly modernizing Paris, these artists created soft and poetic interpretations of the landscape, and while his peers painted, Cuvelier pursued photography with the same sensibilities. Unlike most of Cuvelier’s pictures, which depict the trees and landscape of Fontainebleau, this picture belongs to a handful of still-life compositions featuring game from the forest.



ProvenanceEx-collection Werner Bockelberg, Hamburg; [Mayer & Mayer, Stuttgart]; purchased by Manfred Heiting, December 9, 1989; given to MFAH, 2004.
Exhibition History"La Natura della Naturamorta - da Fox Talbot ai Nostri Giorni", Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, 2001;
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