Albumen print mounted on blue card, photographer's red ink stamp on the mounting card numbered 196.
 Study from nature, circa 1880.
 Achille Quinet (1831-1907), a French photographer, practiced his profession in Paris, where he had a studio at 320 rue Saint-Honoré between 1869 and 1879. He was a member of the French Photographic Society from 1876 to 1894. After 1879, he left the capital to settle in Cély, near the Fontainebleau forest, where he spent the last years of his life. Quinet is known for his landscapes and studies.
 Although there is no formal "Barbizon school" of photography, several photographers were influenced by the aesthetics and themes favored by the Barbizon painters: natural light, wild landscapes, rural scenes, and the Fontainebleau forest. Among them were Gustave Le Gray, Charles Nègre, and Achille Quinet, who settled near Fontainebleau at the end of his career and produced studies from nature and landscapes that fit within this tradition.