[Oak Tree and Rocks, Forest of Fontainebleau]
Gustave Le Gray
1849–52
![[Oak Tree and Rocks, Forest of Fontainebleau] by Gustave Le Gray](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/oak-tree-and-rocks-forest-of-fontainebleau-283626.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
25.2 x 35.7 cm (9 15/16 x 14 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jennifer and Joseph Duke and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 2000
Accession Number
2000.13
Tags
ForestsLandscapesOaks
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...