Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007297The Port and City of Sète-Mediterranean (Port et Ville de Sète-Mediterranée)
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, on image, in red pencil [?]: "Gustave Le Gray"; blind stamped recto, on album page, lower center: "PHOTOGRAPHIE / GUSTAVE LE GRAY & C / PARIS"; inscribed recto on album page, lower left, in brown ink: "[illegible/cut off]"; printed recto, on paper affixed to album page, lower right, in black ink: "PORT et VILLE de CETTE_Médit [erranée/cut off]; unmarked verso
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "The Photography of Gustave Le Gray," September 18–December 6, 1987. Milwaukee Art Museum, "Gustave Le Gray in Context," January 18–April 14, 2002. Art Institute of Chicago, "Regarding Seas and Skies: Photographic Seascapes by Gustave Le Gray, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and DoDo Jin Ming," November 1, 2003–February 15, 2004. (David Travis) Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 10 Permanent Collection Rotation, November 3, 2012–May 6, 2013.
Publications
Janis, Eugenia Parry. 1987. "The Photography of Gustave Le Gray." Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. p. 64, pl. 5.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Le Gray / French, 1820–1884
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- Albumen print, from the album "Vistas del Mar"
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 32.1 × 40.3 cm (12 11/16 × 15 7/8 in.); Album page: 50.9 × 64.5 cm (20 1/16 × 25 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- albumen silver print
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Hugh Edwards Fund
- Accession no.
- 1971.577.13
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