Temple of Vesta and Fountain, Piazza Bocca della Verita
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
23.7 x 19 cm (9 5/16 x 7 1/2 in. )
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Rubel Collection, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1997
Accession Number
1997.382.69
About the Artist
Gustave Le Gray|Firmin-Eugène Le Dien · 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...