Portail milieu d'Aubeterre
1851
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 9 3/16 in. × 11 in. (23.3 × 28 cm) Sheet: 9 3/16 in. × 11 in. (23.3 × 28 cm) Primary Mount: 10 9/16 in. × 15 1/8 in. (26.9 × 38.4 cm) Secondary Mount: 14 1/2 in. × 18 3/8 in. (36.8 × 46.6 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1991
Accession Number
1991.1058
Tags
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...