
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007302Cloudy Sky, Mediterranean Sea
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: "CIEL CHARGÉ_Mer Médit [erranée/cut off]; unmarked verso
Exhibition history
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, August 2011–April 2012.
Publications
Janis, Eugenia Parry. 1987. "The Photography of Gustave Le Gray." Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. p. 73, pl. 16. (other print of this image) J. Paul Getty Museum and Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie. 1993. “Gustave Le Gray, Carleton E. Williams: Pioneers of Landscape Photography: Photographs from the Collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum." Exh. cat. Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut/J. Paul Getty Museum. p. 29. (other print of this image) Aubenas, Sylvie. 2002. “Gustave Le Gray: 1820–1884.” Exh. cat. J. Paul Getty Museum/Bibliothèque Nationale de France. p. 127, fig. 147, cat. 132. (other print of this image) Aubenas, Sylvie. 2003. “Gustave Le Gray.” Phaidon Press Limited. n.p. (other print of this image)
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, No. 16 from the album "Vistas del Mar"
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 30.9 × 41.8 cm (12 3/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Album page: 50.8 × 64.2 cm (20 × 25 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- albumen silver print
- Style
- 19th century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Hugh Edwards Fund
- Accession no.
- 1971.577.2
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