[Cavalry Maneuvers, Camp de Châlons]

[Cavalry Maneuvers, Camp de Châlons] by Gustave Le Gray

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative

Dimensions

Image: 26.7 x 33 cm (10 1/2 x 13 in.)

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gilman Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2005

Accession Number

2005.100.49

Tags

SoldiersHorses

About the Artist

Gustave Le Gray · 18201884

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...

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