Brig on the Water
Gustave Le Gray
1856
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
32.1 x 40.5 cm (12 5/8 x 15 15/16 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of A. Hyatt Mayor, 1976
Accession Number
1976.645.1
Tags
CloudsBoatsSeascapes
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...