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Fourth Iron Trestle, 43 x 29 (2024) Photograph by Francois de Melogue
109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
£593.11
Artwork description
Fourth Iron Trestle
Francois de Melogue
2024 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 43 x 29
The tracks run straight and level through the gravel, littered with fallen leaves the color of rust and dried blood, before they meet the iron portal of the trestle. The structure rises with the blunt confidence of old industrial work. Riveted crossbeams, latticed diagonals, the whole frame darkened by weather and time to the color of dried iron ore. It does not lean or sway. It simply holds, as it has held for over a century, against the weight of everything that has crossed it.
Beyond the portal, the forest is on fire. Not literally, but the distinction barely matters. Crimson maples press against one another in the corridor of trees framed by the trestle's arch, lit from within by the particular low-angled light of a New Hampshire October. The green at the edges has not yet surrendered, and it makes the red burn hotter by contrast. To stand at the end of those tracks and look through that frame is to feel the season at its most concentrated. The air carries the faint sweetness of decaying leaves, the cold already threaded through it, the whole thing beautiful in the way that things are beautiful when they will not last.
Available in three sizes, each signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity:
Fine Art Print 25 x 17 paper, 24 x 16 image | Limited Edition of 50 | $295
Fine Art Print 43 x 29 paper, 42 x 28 image | Limited Edition of 25 | $795
Fine Art Print 61 x 41 paper, 60 x 40 image | Limited Edition of 10 | $1,495
About the print
Each piece is made on location and printed by hand in my Vermont studio with archival pigment inks rated for over a hundred years of color stability. The 25 x 17 is printed on Premium Satin paper. The 43 x 29 and 61 x 41 are printed on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Each print carries a 0.5 inch archival white border, ships rolled in a heavy tube, and arrives with a signed certificate.
About my work
I spent thirty years cooking in farm-to-table kitchens before returning to the camera. My work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe. A traveling exhibition is currently on view at The University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington City Hall in Vermont, and my photographs were recently included in the 35th Annual Green Mountain Photography Show. I am represented in Vermont by Artisan's Gallery in Waitsfield, ArtHound in Essex, Artists in Residence in Saint Albans, The Emile Gruppe Gallery, and Remarkable Things in Stowe.
Custom sizes and framing available on request.
Materials used:
Archival pigment print on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Architecture and cityscapes
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Artwork description
Fourth Iron Trestle
Francois de Melogue
2024 | Archival pigment print on professional luster fine art paper, 260gsm. | 43 x 29
The tracks run straight and level through the gravel, littered with fallen leaves the color of rust and dried blood, before they meet the iron portal of the trestle. The structure rises with the blunt confidence of old industrial work. Riveted crossbeams, latticed diagonals, the whole frame darkened by weather and time to the color of dried iron ore. It does not lean or sway. It simply holds, as it has held for over a century, against the weight of everything that has crossed it.
Beyond the portal, the forest is on fire. Not literally, but the distinction barely matters. Crimson maples press against one another in the corridor of trees framed by the trestle's arch, lit from within by the particular low-angled light of a New Hampshire October. The green at the edges has not yet surrendered, and it makes the red burn hotter by contrast. To stand at the end of those tracks and look through that frame is to feel the season at its most concentrated. The air carries the faint sweetness of decaying leaves, the cold already threaded through it, the whole thing beautiful in the way that things are beautiful when they will not last.
Available in three sizes, each signed and numbered with a certificate of authenticity:
Fine Art Print 25 x 17 paper, 24 x 16 image | Limited Edition of 50 | $295
Fine Art Print 43 x 29 paper, 42 x 28 image | Limited Edition of 25 | $795
Fine Art Print 61 x 41 paper, 60 x 40 image | Limited Edition of 10 | $1,495
About the print
Each piece is made on location and printed by hand in my Vermont studio with archival pigment inks rated for over a hundred years of color stability. The 25 x 17 is printed on Premium Satin paper. The 43 x 29 and 61 x 41 are printed on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Each print carries a 0.5 inch archival white border, ships rolled in a heavy tube, and arrives with a signed certificate.
About my work
I spent thirty years cooking in farm-to-table kitchens before returning to the camera. My work is held in private collections across the United States and Europe. A traveling exhibition is currently on view at The University of Vermont Medical Center and Burlington City Hall in Vermont, and my photographs were recently included in the 35th Annual Green Mountain Photography Show. I am represented in Vermont by Artisan's Gallery in Waitsfield, ArtHound in Essex, Artists in Residence in Saint Albans, The Emile Gruppe Gallery, and Remarkable Things in Stowe.
Custom sizes and framing available on request.
Materials used:
Archival pigment print on Luster Photo Paper, 260gsm. Shot on a Canon EOS R5 Mark II. Printed in studio on a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100 with museum-grade archival pigment inks.
Details:
- Photograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 109.22 x 73.66cm (unframed) / 106.68 x 71.12cm (actual image size)
- Signed and numbered certificate of authenticity
- Style: Photorealistic
- Subject: Architecture and cityscapes
