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View of Ste-Adrese Beach with the Dumont Baths
Also known as: Temple of Athene Nike. Venus Victrix--Wingless Victory
About the Artwork
One of the pioneering masters of French landscape photography, Gustave Le Gray shows us the bathing establishments and tourist hotels that dominated the waterfront of this town on the coast of Normandy. Monet focused instead on the more picturesque and timeless beach and fishing boats. Le Gray’s image is distinctly rooted in the present—that is, the present of 1856—in a way that seems shockingly modern.
Inscriptions
In graphite on verso: “392”; Written in brown ink on verso: “12,982”
Provenance
Daniel Wolf, New York NY, sold to Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY ?-2022: Michael Mattis & Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH March 7, 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884)
- Date
- 1856
- Medium
- albumen print from collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 30.8 x 39.1 cm (12 1/8 x 15 3/8 in.); Paper: 30.8 x 39.1 cm (12 1/8 x 15 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
- Accession no.
- 2022.35
More by Gustave Le Gray in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00012668
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