[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
Rights
Public Domain
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...