Sous les Fours à Chaux | Under the Lime Kilns

Sous les Fours à Chaux | Under the Lime Kilns

With smoke enveloping the entire composition, a worker loads lime from a kiln into a large horse-drawn dray. The work is wrongly attributed on the mount to Edmond Misonne, as the print itself used to make this reproduction bears Léonard Misonne’s signature at lower right. Edmond Misonne, (1890-1945) was the artist’s nephew.

Léonard Misonne: 1870-1943

Léonard Misonne  was a Belgian pictorialist photographer. He is known for his landscapes and street scenes with atmospheric skies.

PhotographyMisonne is best known for his atmospheric photographs of landscapes and street scenes, with light as a key feature, and as a pioneer of pictorialism. According to the Directory of Belgian Photographers, “Misonne’s work is characterised by a masterly treatment of light and atmospheric conditions. His images express poetic qualities, but sometimes slip into an anecdotal sentimentality.” He was nicknamed “the Corot of photography”.

Misonne devoted himself to photography from 1896, joining the Belgian Photography Association in 1897. He became a leading light in pictorialism, frequently exhibiting his photographs at exhibitions. He also did slide shows. Much of his photography was in Belgium and the Netherlands, but he also visited London, France, Germany and Switzerland. The German occupation of Belgium during World War II greatly restricted his photography.- Wikipedia (2024)

Additional historical as well as exhibition history for Léonard Misonne can be found courtesy of the Directory of Belgian Photographers hosted online by Fotomuseum Antwerp. (FOMU)

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Sous les Fours à Chaux | Under the Lime Kilns
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Dimensions

Image Dimensions16.6 x 23.7 cm corner-glued Lieferung 2 | Second Issue

Support Dimensions26.5 x 34.7 cm off-white colored paper with wove pattern

Print Notes

Recto: Engraved: l.l.: EDMOND MISONNE, GILLY. SOUS LES FOURS À CHAUX.; within plate at l.l.: BX (atelier); signed by artist in plate at l.r.: Léonard Misonne 1903; on mount at l.r.: monogram KP, for abbreviated name of journal. (1903 was the first year Die Kunst in der Photographie added this monogram to autotype plate mounts.

Exhibitions | Collections

-Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: autotype for Die Kunst in der Photographie: Sous les fours à chaux. 1902: Inventarnummer: 14205119

Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin: gum print: Sous les fours à chaux. 1902: Inventarnummer: 1915,266.

 

Published

Art in Photography, Photo Era Publishing Company, Boston: 1905: mounted halftone: Under the Lime Kilns, Léonard Misonne.