Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau
Gustave Le Gray
c. 1856
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 31.8 × 41.6 cm (12 9/16 × 16 7/16 in.); Mount: 53.2 × 71.1 cm (21 × 28 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
68994
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...