Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007307Mediterranean with Mount Agde
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] 6[?]3"; 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)
Publications
Janis, Eugenia Parry. 1987. "The Photography of Gustave Le Gray." Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. p. 75, pl. 18.
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: 32.5 × 40.8 cm (12 13/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Album page: 50.9 × 64.2 cm (20 1/16 × 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.
- 1971.577.6
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