Pyramides de Gizèh
1865–69
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 31.1 x 41.8 cm (12 1/4 x 16 7/16 in.) Mount: 45.9 x 62.5 cm (18 1/16 x 24 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Robert Shapazian, 2009
Accession Number
2009.440.3
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...