Port et Ville de Sète-Méditerranée (The Port and City of Sète-Mediterranean)
Gustave Le Gray
1857
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image: 32 × 40.1 cm (12 5/8 × 15 13/16 in.) mount: 53.5 × 68 cm (21 1/16 × 26 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Stephen G. Stein
Accession Number
2022.146.3
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...