Portrait de Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte en Prince-Président
1852
Medium
Albumen silver print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 20.2 x 14.7 cm (7 15/16 x 5 13/16 in.) Mount: 48.1 x 38.6 cm (18 15/16 x 15 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.850
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...