[The Great Wave, Sète]
Gustave Le Gray
1857
![[The Great Wave, Sète] by Gustave Le Gray](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/the-great-wave-ste-261941.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
33.7 x 41.4 cm (13 1/4 x 16 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of John Goldsmith Phillips, 1976
Accession Number
1976.646
Tags
WavesSeascapes
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...