Cloudy Sky, Mediterranean Sea
Gustave Le Gray
1857
Medium
Albumen print, No. 16 from the album "Vistas del Mar"
Dimensions
Image/paper: 30.9 × 41.8 cm (12 3/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Album page: 50.8 × 64.2 cm (20 × 25 5/16 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
126485
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...