The 30 × 30 cm giclée print of the Thiollier photograph, unframed, white border, on 200 gsm fine art paper

Attributed to Félix Thiollier – Lady and Horse in the Snow, 1899 | Giclée Print

30 × 30 cm / 11.8 × 11.8 in — Image 24 × 24 cm
CHF 59.00
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The 30 × 30 cm giclée print of the Thiollier photograph, unframed, white border, on 200 gsm fine art paper
  • The 30 × 30 cm giclée print of the Thiollier photograph, unframed, white border, on 200 gsm fine art paper
  • Attributed to Félix Thiollier, Lady and Horse in the Snow, 1899 — the photograph reproduced whole, a woman in a long coat and a galloping horse on snow
  • The photograph as a 50 × 50 cm giclée print, unframed, hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard
  • Detail at actual print size: the woman's coat, the whip and the grain of the old photograph
  • The 30 × 30 cm giclée print of the Thiollier photograph, unframed, white border, on 200 gsm fine art paper
  • Attributed to Félix Thiollier, Lady and Horse in the Snow, 1899 — the photograph reproduced whole, a woman in a long coat and a galloping horse on snow
  • The photograph as a 50 × 50 cm giclée print, unframed, hung 25 cm above a 140 cm sideboard
  • Detail at actual print size: the woman's coat, the whip and the grain of the old photograph
Attributed to Félix Thiollier – Lady and Horse in the Snow, 1899 | Giclée Print

Attributed to Félix Thiollier – Lady and Horse in the Snow, 1899 | Giclée Print

CHF 59.00
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A woman in a long dark coat walks away from us across a snow-covered paddock, a thin whip trailing from her right hand. Behind her a dark horse breaks into a gallop along the rail. Bare trees stand in the falling snow, and the light is so flat that everything except the two dark shapes dissolves into grey.

It is an ordinary working moment — a horse being exercised on a winter morning — held with the compositional care of a painting. Two black silhouettes on an almost white field, placed off centre, moving apart. Nothing in the picture explains itself.

The photograph is generally published as the work of Félix Thiollier (1842–1914) and dated 1899. Thiollier was a Saint-Étienne industrialist who left business early for art and archaeology, taught himself photography, and spent more than twenty years photographing the Forez — its monuments, its ruins, its people and above all its weather — leaving some three to four thousand negatives. He composed like a painter: deliberate framing, subdued light, deep texture. His descendants gave the surviving archive to the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole in 2024.

On the attribution. It is traditional rather than documented, and this edition says so. Asked about this photograph in March 2025, the museum's Collections service replied that it could not confirm the attribution from its records. The title and the year travel with the picture wherever it is reproduced; neither has a museum source behind it. What is not in question is the period — dress, plate and handling place the picture firmly around 1900 — nor the copyright status: a photograph of that age is in the public domain whoever made it.

What this is. A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks, in the warm grey of the surviving print rather than converted to neutral black and white.

Scale
30 × 30 cm / 11.8 × 11.8 in — image 24 × 24 cm
50 × 50 cm / 19.7 × 19.7 in — image 42 × 42 cm

The negative is lost and the surviving print is in private hands, so no original dimension can be quoted and none is invented. The motif is set at the size the best traced reproduction actually supports — 305 dpi on the small sheet, 174 dpi on the large one — rather than enlarged beyond it.

Provenance
Attributed to Félix Thiollier (1842–1914), Lady and Her Horse on a Snowy Day, 1899; photograph.
Private collection; no inventory number.
Public domain: the photograph is well over a century old and free in every market this shop serves, whoever made it.

The print
Giclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The warm tone of the surviving print is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.

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