Gustave Le Gray (French 1820 - 1884)
Le Brick au clair de lune [Brig on the water], 1856
albumen print
with stamped signature (lower right)
image size 31 x 40.5 cm., frame size 51 x 61 cm.

Condition: Sheet timestained and foxed, edges worn and with a few tears in the margins, traces of tape on the reverse sheet edges, scattered minor abrasions and other minor defects corresponding with age, otherwise in good condition. Framed behind glass.

Notes: Also in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Art Institute of Chicago
Princeton University Art Museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, the Musée d’Orsay, Paris and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.


Provenance:
Gorringes Auctions, Lewes, 2007.
The Henri van der Tol Collection.

Literature:
S. Aubenas & G. Baldwin, Gustave Le Gray, 1820-1884, Los Angeles, 2002, pl. 128, 108 and 363.
Hellman, Karen, ed. Real/Ideal: Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, exhibition catalog (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2016), pl. 118.
Jacobson, Ken, ed. The Lovely Sea-View: A Study of the Marine Photographs Published by Gustave Le Gray, 1856-1858, pl. 2, p. 8
Sylvie Aubenas, ed. Gustave Le Gray 55, pp. 84-85
Baldwin, Gordon ed. Looking at Photographs: A Guide to Technical Terms, p. 6
Novak, 19th-century French Master Photographers: Life into Art, p.51, pl. 50.


Est: € 6000-8000