The Pont du Carrousel, Paris: View to the West from the Pont des Arts
Gustave Le Gray
1856-1858
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
sheet: 37.8 x 48.8 cm (14 7/8 x 19 3/16 in.) overall: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.94
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...