Troncs d'arbres, Fontainebleau (Tree Trunks, Fontainebleau)
Gustave Le Gray
1855
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 33.7 × 23.7 cm (13 1/4 × 9 5/16 in.) mount: 54.61 × 38.74 cm (21 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Stephen G. Stein
Accession Number
2021.5.20
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...