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
Rights
Public Domain
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...