Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884
Fontainebleau, Le peintre sous le Rageur, 1849
Albumenised salt print
25.6 x 19 cms
10 1/16 x 7 7/16 ins
10 1/16 x 7 7/16 ins
13463
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circa 1849 Salt print, lightly albumenised, mounted on card. Wet stamp in red ink 'Gustave Le Gray' on lower left. This photograph is one of Gustave Le Gary's earliest works....
circa 1849
Salt print, lightly albumenised, mounted on card.
Wet stamp in red ink 'Gustave Le Gray' on lower left.
This photograph is one of Gustave Le Gary's earliest works. It is the only known print.
It is one of the earliest known photographs of a painter at work.
Many of Le Gray's earliest works were made in and around Fontainbleau and its forest and show his affinities with Barbizon school painting.
The present photograph is exceptional in showing an artist painting under the shade of landmark tree: "A tree near Barbizon was famous under the name of the Rageur. It was an oak, of fabulous old age, with a trunk hollowed out and half-naked, which twitched and twisted, as if in a fit of rage, its dried branches, which were filled, from time to time, with a few tufts of leaves." Camille Pelletan, Une education Républicaine, Paris, no date.
Salt print, lightly albumenised, mounted on card.
Wet stamp in red ink 'Gustave Le Gray' on lower left.
This photograph is one of Gustave Le Gary's earliest works. It is the only known print.
It is one of the earliest known photographs of a painter at work.
Many of Le Gray's earliest works were made in and around Fontainbleau and its forest and show his affinities with Barbizon school painting.
The present photograph is exceptional in showing an artist painting under the shade of landmark tree: "A tree near Barbizon was famous under the name of the Rageur. It was an oak, of fabulous old age, with a trunk hollowed out and half-naked, which twitched and twisted, as if in a fit of rage, its dried branches, which were filled, from time to time, with a few tufts of leaves." Camille Pelletan, Une education Républicaine, Paris, no date.
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