Prince Moskova at Chalons
Gustave Le Gray
1857
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 29.7 × 22 cm (11 3/4 × 8 11/16 in.); Mount: 34.4 × 24.8 cm (13 9/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
212155
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...