"Jaguar Attacking a Horse" Henri Rousseau Polaroid Museum Replica Collection

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"Jaguar Attacking a Horse" Henri Rousseau Polaroid Museum Replica Collection

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"Jaguar Attacking a Horse" Henri Rousseau Polaroid Museum Replica Collection 51" Actual Size Polaroid Replica of "Jaguar Attacking a Horse" by Henri Rousseau, French, 1844-1910 Part of The Polaroid Museum Replica Collection The Worlds Highest Quality Reproductions of Fine Art This beautiful piece was gifted to our client who owned a camera store by Kodak. History on the Camera One day in the mid-1970s, Edwin Land went to John McCann, one of his close deputies, with an idea. Land wanted to make a full-size reproduction of Renoir’s Bal à Bougival, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “It’s 39 inches wide,” he told McCann, “and our film is slit at 40 inches. We can do it!” McCann, whose job often involved executing wonderful, near-impossible ideas that had alighted in Land’s fertile brain, soon had constructed a large camera, one the size of a room, a sophisticated cousin to the camerae obscurae of the ancients. The lens of the Museum Camera, as it was called, weighed 50 pounds (custom-built, and not, as legend has it, pulled off a spy plane). The film actually measured 44 inches wide if you counted the margins, and could be shot in sheets about 80 inches high—in other words, this camera made instant photos wider and taller than a typical door. Built to reproduce paintings—starting with that Renoir—it spent most of its life in the Museum of Fine Arts, and rigged-up versions were built at the Vatican and other places that allowed their artwork to be photographed this way. You could, up until the late eighties or so, buy one of these uncanny one-to-one reproductions, which were much richer than conventional four-color prints: Polaroid Museum Replicas, as they were called, required no reducing and re-enlarging, and thus showed no loss of detail, though their flatness and sheen did give an odd kitschy quality to the perfectly reproduced brushstrokes. The Cambridge Historical Society reproduced its rarer paintings, and to this day exhibits the copies, keeping the originals hidden away somewhere for safety. Sans Frame - 44" x 34"

Dimensions:
Height: 41 in (104.14 cm)Width: 51 in (129.54 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Paper
Period:
Late 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1970s-1980s
Condition:
Very Good See Pictures.
Seller Location:
Dayton, OH
Reference Number:
Seller: 222091stDibs: LU5343219624052