Path in the forest

In 1997 The Metropolitan Museum of Art presented the exhibition Eugne Cuvelier, Photographer in the Circle of Corot introducing to a wider American audience the work of an artist previously known only by a small group of nineteenth century enthusiasts. Cuvelier, who learned about photography from his father, Adalbert, used the medium as a means of expressing many of the same aesthetic qualities attracting contemporary painters of the Barbizon School, particularly his friend Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. The photographer and the painter shared their work and found influence in each other's vision, producing images with a similar sensibility and approach. Cuvelier's photographs seem to have been a personal endeavor and were rarely exhibited and never published. The small number of surviving prints suggests that few duplicates were made and in most cases only one or two survive of a particular image. (Daniel, Eugne Cuvelier, Photographer in the Circle of Corot, exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 8 October 1996 - 12 January 1997, pp. 7-9.)

There is another print of this image in a private European collection.