[Soldier and Military Camel]
1866
![[Soldier and Military Camel] by Gustave Le Gray](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/soldier-and-military-camel-284986.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 24.2 x 30.7 cm (9 1/2 x 12 1/16 in.) Mount: 37.7 x 43.4 cm (14 13/16 x 17 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2002
Accession Number
2002.257
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...