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Gustave Le Gray 1820-1882
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description
- Gustave Le Gray
- SAILING SHIPS, SÈTE
albumen print, numbered '8846' in a contemporary hand in ink on the reverse, matted, circa 1854
Provenance
Private Collection
William L. Schaeffer/Photographs, Connecticut
Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above, circa 1990
Exhibited
Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003
Literature
Other prints of this image:
Ken Jacobson, The Lovely Sea-View: A Study of the Marien Photographs Published by Gustave Le Gray, 1856-1858 (Petches Bridge, 2001), pl. 9
Une Passion Française: Photographies de la Collection Roger Therond (Paris: La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 1999, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 51 (variant)
Nils Ramstedt, 'An Album of Seascapes by Gustave Le Gray,' History of Photography, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 1980, p. 123