3 carbon prints. 28,6 x 38 cm. 30,7 x 37,4 cm. 30,3 x 37,7 cm. Each print flush-mounted separately to original cardboard from 31,4 x 40,5 cm to 33,2 x 39,8 cm. One print annonated in pencil in an unknown hand on the reverse of the mount.
„The Braun catalogs continued to burgeon with a variety of subjects, some of which are of great interest, even if their ultimate value was fleeting compared to Adolphe's more significant series. The first, and clearly the most puzzling, is entitled Animaux de ferme. [...] Adolphe bought a variety of properties, particularly farms, in and around Dornach. Likely it was at one of these farms that he systematically photographed cows, calves, bulls, horses, and other animals, standing alone, in herds or harnessed, and often accompanied by farmhands. [...] These rare images are often very beautiful in the brute simplicity of their composition, their lack of artifice, and the quality of their light.“ (cit.: O'Brien/Mary Bergstein, op.cit., p. 22/23.)
Literature
Maureen O'Brien/Mary Bergstein (ed.), Image and Enterprise. The Photographs of Adolphe Braun, London 2000, p. 23, 81,146 with similar images from the