Chateau of Courances, Forest of Fountainbleu, France – Antique Print
![Chateau of Courances, Forest of Fountainbleu, France, [between 1910 and 1925] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2f/2fe5950989ef-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Chateau of Courances, Forest of Fountainbleu, France. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Chateau of Courances, Forest of Fountainbleu, France
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The subject is the Château de Courances, a moated country house on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest south of Paris, and its formal gardens are the feature that makes it notable. Its long, mirror-like basins and clipped hedges reflect the French garden tradition that spread through the country's estates during the 1600s. Frances Benjamin Johnston, the American photographer whose collection this print belongs to, worked on architecture and gardens in the early twentieth century, so the picture is as much a record of a garden style as of a building. The date given is a range, and the caption card that supplies the title and number has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | [between 1910 and 1925] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | No. 118. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,000 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159976 |
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