Cavalry Maneuvers, Camp de Châlons
Gustave Le Gray
1857
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image (20.8 x 25.3): 20.8 x 25.3 cm (8 3/16 x 9 15/16 in.) support: 27.5 x 33.8 cm (10 13/16 x 13 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon
Accession Number
2006.131.6
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...