Zouave Storyteller (Le recit)
Gustave Le Gray
1857
Medium
Albumen print, from the album "Souvenirs du Camp de Châlons"
Dimensions
Image/paper: 30.6 × 38.5 cm (12 1/16 × 15 3/16 in.); Album page: 52.7 × 63.7 cm (20 3/4 × 25 1/8 in.)
Classification
albumen silver print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
144431
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...