circa 1860.

The present photograph bears a notable resemblance to a drawing by Théodore Rousseau entitled Route en Forêt (Michel Schulman, Théodore Rousseau 1812 - 1867: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Graphique, no. 738), made circa 1860. In both works, a dirt carriage track dominates the bottom and right sides of the frame, and a grove of tall trees stands on the left. The photograph and the drawing appear to have been made from similar vantage points: Cuvelier and Rousseau each placed themselves squarely in the middle of the track in formulating their compositions. The depth of the shadows in Cuvelier's photograph -- in the foreground, and pooled beneath the stand of trees -- indicates that he took this image under the full force of the sun on a particularly bright day.

Gauss does not list this salt print in her census, and accounts for only one albumen print.