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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau
    Gustave Le Gray. Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau, c. 1856. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00006909

    Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau

    by Gustave Le Gray

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed recto, lower right, on image, in red ink: "Gustave Le Gray"; blind stamped recto, on mount, lower center: "PHOTOGRAPHIE / GUSTAVE LE GRAY / PARIS [in oval formation]"; inscribed recto, on mount, lower left, in brown ink: "22049"; unmarked verso

    Exhibition history

    Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990. Albuquerque, New Mexico, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, "The Barbizon Tradition," March 22–May 12, 1991. Art Institute of Chicago, "Distant Relations," May 8–July 18, 1993. (David Travis) Art Institute of Chicago, "A Measure of Nature: Landscape Photographs from the Permanent Collection,: May30–September 7, 1998. Milwaukee Art Museum, "Gustave Le Gray in Context," January 18–April 14, 2002. Art Institute of Chicago, "Paris: Photographs from a Time That Was," August 13–November 6, 2005. (David Travis)

    Publications

    Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 83, cat. 56. Wood, James N. and Teri J. Edelstein. 1997. "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide." Publications Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. p. 172. Aubenas, Sylvie. 2002. “Gustave Le Gray: 1820–1884.” Exh. cat. J. Paul Getty Museum/Bibliothèque Nationale de France. p. 102, pl. 120. (other print of this image) Wood, James N. 2003. "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide - Revised Edition." Publications Department of the Art Institute of Chicago. p 172. Travis, David. 2005. “Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 30.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Gustave Le Gray / French, 1820–1884
    Date
    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.)
    Type
    Photograph
    Classification
    albumen silver print
    Style
    19th century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Photography and Media
    Credit line
    Edward E. Ayer Endowment in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson; Samuel P. Avery, Wentworth G. Field Memorial, Maurice D. Galleher, General Acquisitions, and Laura T. Magnuson endowments
    Accession no.
    1987.54

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