Bas-Bréau, Forest of Fontainebleau
Gustave Le Gray
1849-1852
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 25.6 × 37.2 cm (10 1/16 × 14 5/8 in.) mount: 28 × 40.1 cm (11 × 15 13/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.92
About the Artist
Gustave Le Gray · 1820–1884
Gustave Le Gray, born on August 30, 1820, in Villiers-le-Bel near Paris to a prosperous merchant family, pursued his artistic ambitions against his parents' wishes for a legal career. As an only child, he trained as a painter in the studios of François-Édouard Picot and Paul Delaroche at the École des Beaux-Arts, exhibiting at the Paris Salons in 1848 and 1853. In 1844, he married Palmira Leonardi...