Beech Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau
Gustave Le Gray
c. 1856
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 31.8 × 41.4 cm (12 1/2 × 16 5/16 in.) mat: 55.88 × 71.12 cm (22 × 28 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.93
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...