La Reine Hortense - Yacht de l'Empereur - Hâvre
Gustave Le Gray
1856
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
325; 413
About this artwork
foto: hoogte 325 mm x breedte 413 mm
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...